Java showed a dramatic decline of -3.92% on TIOBE’s system. While the programming language still sits at number four, Jansen notes that C# has never been this close to catching up to Java.

Rounding up the top five was C# at 4.92%, with JavaScript coming in at 7th place, PHP in 12th, and Apple ’s Swift coding language in 15th, down from 10th this time last year.

Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#. It was also the top language ...

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced the availability of the first beta version of a new tool that will migrate Java code into C#, Microsoft's proprietary Java-like programming language.

Regardless of Microsoft’s original motivations, C# has evolved to become a really good language. But it definitely remains very similar to Java, on which its design is based.

News C Leads, Java Slips, C++, C# and R Climbing Fast in TIOBE Rankings By John K. Waters September 8, 2020 The results of the September TIOBE Programming Community index are in, and the C language ...

C++ ranks higher than Java in the Tiobe language popularity index for the first time ever, dating back to 2001. Java slipped to a new low in the latest edition of the index.