Programming languages: This old favourite tops the charts again Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Feb. 9, 2021 at 2:42 a.m. PT C accounted for 16.34% of all searches that Tiobe tracks.

1985: The first official reference guide for the C++ programming language is published. The author, Bjarne Stroustrup, is also the language’s creator. Stroustrup had been hacking away at his ...

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.