Tiobe analysts said it was "very surprising" that Visual Basic .Net is now the fifth most popular language, only behind C++, Python, C, and Java.

Python maintains its runaway top ranking in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, while older languages ...

Tiobe's top-10 languages this April in descending order are Java, C, C++, Python, Visual Basic .NET, C#, JavaScript, SQL, PHP, and Assembly Language.