# The most popular programming languages of 2025

The top 10 of the TIOBE index for December 2025, which measures each language's popularity from search-engine results for skilled engineers, courses and vendors. Percentages are each language's TIOBE rating.

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- Mar 12, 2026 · overclocked84
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## Top 10

1. **Python** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — 23.64% in December 2025, far ahead of everyone else; the language of AI, data science and scripting. <https://www.python.org/>
2. **Java** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — 8.70%; three decades on, still everywhere in enterprise systems and Android. <https://www.java.com/>
3. **C** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 10.11%, back up to second place; still the language of operating systems and embedded devices.
4. **C\#** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 7.26%; named TIOBE's programming language of the year 2025 for the biggest rise in ratings. <https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/>
5. **Visual Basic** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2.81%; Microsoft's veteran language, still common in business applications and Office macros.
6. **SQL** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 2.10%; the language for querying databases, climbing in December 2025.
7. **R** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — 1.96%; the statistics language, back in the top 10 thanks to data science. <https://www.r-project.org/>
8. **C++** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 8.95%; the choice for video games, browsers and high-performance software. <https://isocpp.org/>
9. **JavaScript** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 2.96%; the language of the web, running in every browser.
10. **Perl** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 1.97%; one of 2025's surprises, climbing back into the top 10. <https://www.perl.org/>

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.