Python continues to soar within the Tiobe index of programming language reputation, rising to a 25.35% share in Could 2025. It’s the 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 most important 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 susceptible to sudden run-time errors,” stated Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen, who had famous Python’s “severe drawbacks” beforehand. “Which means that safety-critical and/or real-time programs nonetheless should depend on different languages, however in most different domains Python is slowly however absolutely discovering its strategy to the highest.”
Python’s high rating at present carries extra weight than Java’s virtually 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 at present. ”Therefore, it was simpler to get such a excessive rating in 2001,” Jansen stated.