While C# fell short of Tiobe’s Programming Language of the Year honors for 2022, Tiobe expects the Microsoft-built object-oriented, type-safe language to snag the honor for 2023.

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.

Tiobe found that Java fell by almost 5% over the past year. The company expects Julia, a programming language growing in data-science and machine-learning fields, will become a top 20 language in ...

Tiobe believes “chances are high” that C# could replace C among the top three languages in the index. Also trending upward is C++, its rating rising 1.01 percentage points in the past year.

Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto JavaScript, Python, Java, TypeScript and C# are the most widely used programming languages in GitHub projects, according to GitHub's 2022 Octoverse report.

Java's all time record of 26.49 percent ratings in 2001 is still far away, but Python has it all to become the de facto standard programming language for many domains. There are no signs that Python's ...

C# was the language with the largest usage uptick in one year (+1.43%), the company said. The runners up were Scratch (+0.83%), a visual programming language that allows students to create interactive ...

Microsoft's C# programming language continues to slide in the latest SlashData usage report out for Q3 2020. That report is the "Developer Economics State of the Developer Nation, 19th Edition," just ...