Python popularity climbs to highest ever – Tiobe
a year ago
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- Python's popularity in the Tiobe index reached 25.35% in May 2025, the highest since Java in 2001.
- Python's lead over the second most popular language, C++, is 15 percentage points, the largest in Tiobe's history.
- Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen noted Python's drawbacks, such as low performance and being interpreted, but acknowledged its dominance in most domains.
- In 2001, Tiobe tracked only 20 languages compared to 282 today, making Java's high rating easier to achieve.
- The Tiobe index ranks languages based on skilled engineers, courses, and third-party vendors, using data from Google, Wikipedia, and others.
- The Pypl index, which ranks languages based on Google search frequency, also places Python at the top with a 30.41% share.