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Python continues to soar within the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, rising to a 25.35% share in Might 2025. It’s the very best Tiobe ranking for any language since 2001, when Java topped the chart.
Python’s reputation elevated roughly 2.2 proportion factors up to now month; the language had a ranking of 23.08% in April. Python additionally racked up the biggest lead a language has ever had, operating 15 proportion factors forward of the second hottest language, C++, which has a 9.94% ranking. “The one motive different languages nonetheless have a motive for current is due to Python’s low efficiency, and the truth that it’s interpreted and thus vulnerable to surprising run-time errors,” mentioned Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen, who had noted Python’s “serious drawbacks” beforehand. “Which means that safety-critical and/or real-time methods nonetheless need to depend on different languages, however in most different domains Python is slowly however absolutely discovering its method to the highest.”
Python’s prime rating right this moment carries extra weight than Java’s nearly 24 years in the past, Jansen famous. In June 2001, Java’s ranking was 26.49% and in October 2001 it was 25.68%. However Tiobe solely tracked 20 completely different programming languages again then, versus 282 languages right this moment. ”Therefore, it was simpler to get such a excessive rating in 2001,” Jansen mentioned.
