Python also snatched second place from Java in developer analyst RedMonk's programming-language popularity rankings in July. However, RedMonk ranks JavaScript as the top language.

Go has since has been used to build popular projects such as Docker. The top five languages remained stable across the period, with Java leading, followed by C, C++, C#, and Python.

For the first time in the history of TIOBE's index, Java has slipped out of the top two, leaving Python to occupy the spot behind reigning champion, C.

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For the first time in more than 20 years, the Python programming language has overtaken Java, JavaScript, ... while Java fell 2.11 percent to 10.46 percent. // Related Stories.