Python Overtakes C: TIOBE October 2021 Rankings Reveal Surprising Shifts
The TIOBE Index for October 2021 ranks Python as the top language at 11.27%, pushing C and Java down to second and third places, while highlighting notable movements such as R falling out of the top ten and Assembly language making a strong comeback among the top‑100 programming languages.
TIOBE has released its October 2021 programming language index, evaluating 100 languages.
Python Overtakes C, R Drops Out of Top Ten
Python now leads with an 11.27% rating, while C and Java fall to second (11.16%) and third (10.46%) positions, ending their long‑standing dominance.
Top 10 Rankings
Compared with October 2020, Python rose from third to first without a rating change, whereas C and Java each dropped one spot and saw rating declines of 5.79% and 2.11% respectively.
Ranks 4‑7
C++ holds fourth place with 7.50%, followed by C# (5.26%), Visual Basic (5.24%) and JavaScript (2.19%); all four improved their ratings.
Ranks 8‑10
SQL (2.17%), PHP (2.10%) and Assembly language (2.06%) complete the top ten, with Assembly achieving the largest upward movement, while R fell out of the top ten.
Ranks 11‑20
The next tier includes Classic Visual Basic (1.83%), Go (1.28%), MATLAB (1.20%), R (1.20%), Groovy (1.18%), Ruby (1.12%), Swift (1.11%), Fortran (1.08%), Perl (0.93%) and Delphi/Object Pascal (0.93%). Classic Visual Basic, Go, MATLAB, Fortran and Delphi/Object Pascal all moved up.
TIOBE Index Trend (2002‑2020)
The chart shows the ranking curves of programming languages over the past two decades, reflecting their relative popularity.
Other Languages (Ranks 21‑100)
Ranks 21‑50 are omitted for brevity. Ranks 51‑100 are listed alphabetically: ABC, ActionScript, Alice, Applescript, AspectJ, AutoLISP, Awk, B4X, Bash, bc, Bourne shell, C shell, CFML, CIL, Clipper, ECMAScript, Eiffel, Elm, F#, Haxe, Icon, Inform, Io, JScript, Korn shell, LabVIEW, Lingo, M4, ML, MQL4, Nim, NXT‑G, Occam, OpenCL, OpenEdge ABL, Oz, PostScript, Q, Racket, REBOL, REXX, Ring, RPG, S‑PLUS, Simulink, SPSS, Vala/Genie, Verilog, Xojo, XSLT.
About TIOBE Index
The TIOBE Programming Community Index measures language popularity based on the number of skilled engineers, courses, and third‑party vendors, using search engine results from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, and Baidu. It is not a measure of language quality but can help assess whether your skills are up‑to‑date or guide strategic language choices for new software projects.
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