Most Popular Programming Languages

This chart shows the most popular programming languages by their rating in the TIOBE Index for July 2026, which measures language popularity based on search engine results for skilled engineers, courses and third-party vendors.

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Most Popular Programming Languages
This chart shows the most popular programming languages by their rating in the TIOBE Index for July 2026, which measures language popularity based on search engine results for skilled engineers, courses and third-party vendors.
✨ AI Insight

Python leads the TIOBE Index at 18.94 percent, nearly double the score of second-place C at 10.86 percent, reflecting its dominance in data science, AI and education. The classic systems languages C and C++ remain firmly in the top three, together with Java, showing the enduring role of established languages in performance-critical and enterprise software. C# and JavaScript follow in a middle tier, while the appearance of SQL, R and, notably, Rust in the top ten highlights the rising importance of data querying, statistics and memory-safe systems programming. Rust's entry into the top ten for the first time is a milestone, signalling growing industry adoption of a language designed to combine safety with speed. The steep drop from Python to the rest illustrates how concentrated developer attention has become around a single leading language.

Source:  TIOBE Index (July 2026)

Key Findings

Auto-computed highlights from this dataset

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Python leads with 19 in All Time.
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Average value in All Time: 6  ·  median: 4.
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Gap in All Time: Python is 14.1× larger than Rust.

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Data Insights

Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart

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Data Points
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10 categories  ·  1 year
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Top Value
18.94
Python
TIOBE Index Rating (%) · All Time
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TIOBE Index Rating (%)
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All Time
Single year snapshot

Category Rankings

TIOBE Index Rating (%) · All Time

# Category All Time
🥇 Python 18.94
🥈 C 10.86
🥉 C++ 9.12
4 Java 8.03
5 C# 4.49
6 JavaScript 2.72
7 Visual Basic 2.48
8 SQL 1.71
9 R 1.69
10 Rust 1.34
Statistical Summary — TIOBE Index Rating (%) · All Time
18.94
Maximum
1.34
Minimum
6
Average
4
Median

What This Data Shows

Auto-generated trend summaries per category

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Python
Recorded 18.94 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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C
Recorded 10.86 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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C++
Recorded 9.12 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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Java
Recorded 8.03 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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C#
Recorded 4.49 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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JavaScript
Recorded 2.72 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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Visual Basic
Recorded 2.48 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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SQL
Recorded 1.71 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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R
Recorded 1.69 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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Rust
Recorded 1.34 TIOBE Index Rating (%) in All Time.
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Full Data Table

10 records across 1 year

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Category Metric All Time Source
Python TIOBE Index Rating (%) 18.94
C TIOBE Index Rating (%) 10.86
C++ TIOBE Index Rating (%) 9.12
Java TIOBE Index Rating (%) 8.03
C# TIOBE Index Rating (%) 4.49
JavaScript TIOBE Index Rating (%) 2.72
Visual Basic TIOBE Index Rating (%) 2.48
SQL TIOBE Index Rating (%) 1.71
R TIOBE Index Rating (%) 1.69
Rust TIOBE Index Rating (%) 1.34

Data Sources & References

All external sources cited in this dataset

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