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Java ranked third in the Tiobe Index for January 2026 at 8.71%, holding steady behind Python and C and just ahead of C++. Tiobe named C# its Programming Language of the Year for 2025 after the largest ...

C#’s winning the award had been expected; the language was also Tiobe’s language of the year for 2023. “From a language design perspective, C# has often been an early adopter of new trends among ...