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Weekly Trends and and Language Statistics

Weekly Trends


Popularity of Programming Language
Worldwide, Mar 2026 compared to a year ago:

Rank Change Language Share Trend
1 Python 34.87 % +4.4 %
2 up arrow C/C++ 13.66% +6.6 %
3 down arrow Java 9.82% -5.4%
4 up arrow R 6.49 % +1.9 %
5 down arrow Javascript 4.9 % -3.2 %
6 up arrow Swift 3.5 % +1.1 %
7 up arrow Rust 3.08 % -0.0 %
8 down arrow C# 3.03 % -3.1 %
9 down arrow PHP 2.9 % -0.8 %
10 up arrow Ada 2.66 % +1.3 %
11 down arrow Objective-C 2.43% -0.1 %
12 down arrow TypeScript 1.85 % -0.8 %
13 up arrow Matlab 1.54 % -0.1 %
14 up arrow Powershell 1.25 % +0.4 %
15 up arrow Dart 1.08 % +0.0%
16 up arrow Ruby 0.98 % -0.0 %
17 down arrow Kotlin 0.96 % -0.8 %
18 up arrow Lua 0.92 % +0.0 %
19 VBA 0.87 % -0.0 %
20 up arrow Julia 0.77% +0.4 %
21 down arrow GO 0.67 % -1.3 %
22 Abap 0.37 % -0.2%
23 down arrow Scala 0.33 % -0.3 %
24 up arrow Delphi/Pascal 0.27 % +0.2 %
25 Zig 0.27 % +0.0 %
26 down arrow Visual Basic 0.16 % -0.1 %
27 up arrow Haskell 0.13 % +0.0 %
28 down arrow Groovy 0.11 % -0.1 %
29 down arrow Perl 0.07% +0.0 %
30 down arrow Cobol 0.05 % -0.1 %

Source : https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

TIOBE Index for March 2026

Mar 2026 Mar 2025 Change Programming Language Ratings Change
1 1 Python 21.25% -2.59%
2 4 up arrow C 11.55% +2.02%
3 2 down arrow C++ 8.18% -2.90%
4 3 down arrow Java 7.99% -2.37%
5 5 C# 6.36% +1.49%
6 6 JavaScript 3.45% -0.01%
7 9 up arrow Visual Basic 2.50% -0.02%
8 8 SQL 2.00% -0.57%
9 16 up arrow R 1.88% +0.94%
10 10 Delphi/Object Pascal 1.80% -0.36%
11 24 up arrow Perl 1.75% +1.05%
12 12 Scratch 1.63% -0.03%
13 11 down arrow Fortran 1.45% -0.25%
14 14 Rust 1.31% +0.09%
15 15 MATLAB 1.29% +0.31%
16 7 down arrow Go 1.29% -1.49%
17 17 Assembly language 1.29% +0.42%
18 13 down arrow PHP 1.23% -0.25%
19 18 down arrow Ada 1.10% +0.25%
20 26 up arrow Swift 1.04% +0.44%

Source : https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/