Quick programming languages are gaining recognition, TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen mentioned within the TIOBE Programming Group Index in February. Quick programming languages he referred to as out embody C++, Go, and Rust.

Additionally, in keeping with the up to date TIOBE rankings:

• Python, to which Jansen awarded the title “TIOBE’s programming language of the yr 2024” in January, continued to skyrocket.
• C++ held onto its place at second from the highest of the leaderboard.
• Mojo and Zig are following trajectories more likely to carry them into the highest 50, and reached #51 and #56 respectively in February.

The TIOBE Programming Group Index reveals developments in programming languages based mostly on search engine quantity.

Tendencies year-over-year from the TIOBE Programming Group Index. Python is the sunshine blue development line. Picture: TIOBE Software program

Velocity of packages issues in 2025

“Now that the world must crunch increasingly numbers per second, and {hardware} isn’t evolving quick sufficient, velocity of packages is getting vital. Having mentioned this, it’s not stunning that the quick programming languages are gaining floor within the TIOBE index,” Jansen wrote.

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The necessity for velocity helped Mojo and Zig rise into the highest 50.

Rust reached its all-time excessive within the proprietary factors system (1.47%.), and Jansen expects Go to be a standard sight within the prime 10 going ahead.

Python’s recognition reveals no signal of reducing

As will be seen from the picture above, Python continued on an upward streak it has traveled since 2017. Particularly, Python has risen quickly within the factors system since June 2024. Python isn’t a quick language, Jansen identified, so why is it nonetheless so standard?

As generative AI will increase the demand for crunching numbers, extra programmers have to do the human components of that work. As Jansen mentioned within the TIOBE Index for January 2025, Python is so standard as to be thought-about the “undisputed default language of alternative.” So, that recognition compounds as extra folks select to study it.

“Because the variety of graduated software program engineers is decrease than is required, all type of non-software engineers are leaping on the programming bandwagon, and their favourite language is Python,” Jansen wrote. “For this reason Python is right here to remain.”