Python continues to soar within the Tiobe index of programming language reputation, rising to a 25.35% share in Might 2025. It’s the best Tiobe ranking for any language since 2001, when Java topped the chart.
Python’s reputation elevated roughly 2.2 share factors prior to now month; the language had a ranking of 23.08% in April. Python additionally racked up the biggest lead a language has ever had, working 15 share factors forward of the second hottest language, C++, which has a 9.94% ranking. “The one cause different languages nonetheless have a cause for present is due to Python’s low efficiency, and the truth that it’s interpreted and thus liable to surprising run-time errors,” stated Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen, who had famous Python’s “critical drawbacks” beforehand. “Which means that safety-critical and/or real-time techniques nonetheless should depend on different languages, however in most different domains Python is slowly however certainly discovering its option to the highest.”
Python’s prime rating in the present day carries extra weight than Java’s nearly 24 years in the past, Jansen famous. In June 2001, Java’s ranking was 26.49% and in October 2001 it was 25.68%. However Tiobe solely tracked 20 completely different programming languages again then, versus 282 languages in the present day. ”Therefore, it was simpler to get such a excessive rating in 2001,” Jansen stated.
