In winning the designation for 2020, Python jumped 2.01 percentage points last year in the Tiobe Index of language popularity, edging out C++, which increased 1.99 percentage points.

The program works by reading a Python script as an input file, setting up a few parameters, then making a request to OpenAI’s Codex API for the conversion. It then attempts to compile the result.

The C#/.NET SDK reached v1.0.1 in December 2023, and the company has been working on the Python and Java versions since then, (see "Microsoft's Semantic Kernel SDK Ships with AI Agents, Plugins, ...