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Tiobe recognized C++ as the programming language with the biggest gain in popularity in 2022. C and Python were the runners-up.

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

According to the TIOBE Programming Community index, the following are the top 10 programming languages in July 2025. Python: A general-purpose programming language commonly used for back-end ...

A programming language that does not inherently support modules containing data and associated processing (objects). All early languages were non-object languages. For example, C is non-object ...

We’re hoping Go turns out to be a great language for systems programming with support for multi-processing and a fresh and lightweight take on object-oriented design, with some cool features ...