Before 2016, TypeScript was not a top 10 language in GitHub's rankings but it climbed to seventh position in 2018 and over the past year has shot up to fourth spot, eclipsing C#, PHP and C++.

C++ is "doing very well", Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen, says in the company's September 2020 index for the world's most popular programming languages. C++ currently ranks fourth, behind C, Java, and Python.

In the Tiobe Programming Community Index for September 2024, published September 7, the C language finished behind first-ranked Python, followed by C++ in second place and Java in third.

C was ranked first, Java second and C++ fourth in that list. For January 2012, the PYPL index ranked Java No. 1, PHP second, C# and C++ tied for third, and the C language was next at fifth.

Tiobe believes “chances are high” that C# could replace C among the top three languages in the index. Also trending upward is C++, its rating rising 1.01 percentage points in the past year.

Microsoft's C# programming language posted the largest 12-month gain in popularity, says the TIOBE Index for May 2022. After making a charge to contend for TIOBE's "Programming Language of the Year" ...

Java PHP C++ C# C Python JavaScript Visual Basic Ruby Perl However, C# earned its election as programming language of the year due to its 1.8 percent growth during 2012, edging out C++ (1.1 percent) ...

Microsoft’s C# was developed as a Java alternative and borrows from its predecessors: Java, C, C++ and Delphi—as it should, since Anders Hejlsberg, creator of C#, also created the Delphi ...