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C Drops, Java (and Rust) Climb in Popularity - as Coders Seek Easy, Secure Languages

Last month C dropped from 3rd to 4th in TIOBE's ranking of programming language popularity (which tries to calculate each language's share of search engine results). Java moved up into the #3 position in September, reports TechRepublic, which notes that by comparison October "saw relatively little...

Java moved up into the #3 position in September, reports TechRepublic, which notes that by comparison October "saw relatively little change" — though percentages of search results increased slightly. But they also need to be easy to learn ("because the resource pool of skilled software engineers is drying up") and secure ("because of continuous cyber threats.") The language Mojo[a faster superset of Python designed for accelerated hardware like GPUs]... enters the top 50 for the first time.

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