December 2025 TIOBE Index recap: Python still leads, C-C# stay tightly grouped, while SQL climbs, R joins the top 10, and ...

TIOBE Programming Index News October 2025: C Edges Past C++ as SQL Returns to the Top 10 Your email has been sent The October 2025 TIOBE Index saw a reshuffling beneath Python’s still-commanding lead.

Currently I'm learning Java through Comp Sci classes at Texas A&M, but I want to expand my skillset, and would like to pick up C++, probably Microsoft Visual C++/.Net, as well as some form of SQL.

Java, Python, SQL, C++, and JavaScript programming skills are most in demand in the workplace, says the HackerRank developer skills report. When it comes to the programming language skills employers ...