C and Rust programming languages continue to rise

The Tiobe index for June 2020 was led by the C language, which displaced Java to gain the top spot in May for the first time in more than five years. Tiobe last month reasoned that the rise of C was related to the COVID-19 pandemic and C’s wide use in medical devices.

The Tiobe index’s top 10 languages for June 2020:

1. C, with a rating of 17.19 percent
2. Java, 16.1 percent
3. Python, 8.36 percent
4. C++, 5.95 percent
5. C#, 4.73 percent
6. Visual Basic, 4.69 percent
7. JavaScript, 2.27 percent
8. PHP, 2.26 percent
9. R, 2.19 percent
10. SQL, 1.73 percent

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