It’s taking some time for them to adapt their knowledge of C++, C, or Java to C#. They are productive within a month or two, and fully adjusted in less than a year.

Having fallen from third, Java is now in fourth place, growing 1.55%. "The reason for C++'s popularity is its excellent performance while being a high level object-oriented language.

It's my hope that Microsoft will release C# fully to the open source community so that its goodness can spread and usurp the unholy Java reign. I, for one, am tired of being in Java's grip.

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.

C# — C# is a more beginner-friendly alternative to C or C++ that obfuscates more code. It is also a little less difficult than Java, though the two languages are extremely similar.

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.

C# C# was designed by Anders Hejlsberg, who had left Borland for Microsoft, in 1999, and implemented by Mads Torgersen in C and C++ for the CLR in 2000.

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