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.

In a release this week of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, which gauges the popularity of different languages, C# was ranked fourth, used by 8.205 percent of developers, barely behind C++ ...

C - 8.86% C# - 4.45% JavaScript - 4.2% Go - 2.61% SQL - 2.41% Visual Basic - 2.37% Fortran - 2.04% Although Python's explosive growth dominates headlines, Java's steady climb underscores its lasting ...