Python stays far ahead; C strengthens at #2, Java edges past C++, C# is 2025’s winner; Delphi returns, R holds #10.

Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. li> 1. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the ...

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The new major version with a new JIT compiler, a revised parallelization API, and a maturing type system paves the way for the next decade.

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental.

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My little theory is that the concept of “imprinting” in psychology can just as easily be applied to programming: Much as a baby goose decides that the first moving life-form it encounters is its ...