They do this by ... latest popularity index, updated as of April 2025. As you can see, there are five clusters of languages. The top cluster contains Python, JavaScript, and Java.

Java ranked fourth in the December 2022 Tiobe index of programming language popularity, the lowest Java has ranked in the history of the index. C++ ranks higher than Java in the Tiobe language ...

SEE: Top 10 list of programming languages from this month’s TIOBE Index and previous months in 2023 (TechRepublic) “The Java language definition has not changed much the past few years, ...