C++’s origins date back to 1979, when Bjarne Stroustrup, the programming language’s creator, first began work on the language that was then known as “C with Classes”.

The C language has been a programming staple for decades. Here’s how it stacks up against C++, Java, C#, Go, Rust, Python, and the newest kid on the block—Carbon.

The model was trained on data from several repositories from GitHub, covering 12 popular programming languages: C, C#, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala and TypeScript.

TIOBE Index for August 2025: Top 10 Most Popular Programming Languages Your email has been sent Python continues to solidify its significant lead over all of the other programming languages ranked ...