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.

In a release this week of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, which gauges the popularity of different languages, C# was ranked fourth, used by 8.205 percent of developers, barely behind C++ ...

"The gap between C# and Java never has been so small," says the latest edition of the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity. "Currently, the difference is only 1.2 percent, and if the trends ...

According to TIOBE, the most popular languages right now are Java, C, C++, C# and Objective-C. (In that order.) There’s no movement at all in the top 3, though TIOBE says that C++ has lost a bit ...

"C# is eating market share from Java and is getting more and more popular in domains such as web application back ends and games (thanks to Unity)," TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen wrote in a blog post ...

Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen believes the language is attracting Java developers. “I think that Java developers are moving to C# and Kotlin because these languages are more expressive and have no ...

It's the first time in the Tiobe index's nearly 20-year history that Java and C aren't the two top languages. Third is also the lowest position Java has ever held in the Tiobe index, which uses ...