{
  "id": 20197700,
  "title": "Rust Leaves Top 10 in TIOBE Index, Making Room for Go",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/15/rust-leaves-top-10-in-tiobe-index-making-room-for-go",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-15T15:34:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Slashdot",
    "slug": "slashdot",
    "url": "https://developers.slashdot.org/story/26/11/15/0710240/rust-leaves-top-10-in-tiobe-index-making-room-for-go"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In November's TIOBE Index rankings, Rust has dropped out of the top 10, making way for the Go language, according to I-Programmer. This change comes alongside the entry of another Google-originated language, Dart, which has climbed into the top 20, displacing Julia after only one month. TIOBE attributes Dart's popularity mainly to Google's Flutter framework, which is widely used for building cross-platform mobile applications. Despite not being particularly unique, Dart's success is driven by the strength of the Flutter ecosystem and its convenience for developing applications for multiple platforms using a single codebase.\n\nIn the November ranking, Visual Basic has lost two places, allowing R and SQL to take their spots in the top 10. Closer to the bottom, Assembly has re-entered the Top 20. The top 10 languages for November are identified as Python, C, Java, C++, C#, JavaScript, R, SQL, Visual Basic, and Go. Notably, Java has returned to the top 3 after over three years in fourth position, pushing C++ down to #4.\n\nThe dominance of Python is evident, accounting for more than a fifth of the pie, while C has a slice slightly less than half of Python's. Java and C++ together have smaller slices, and C#'s share is approximately half of their combined size. Over half the pie is now shared between just five languages: Python, C, Java, C++, and C#. The next five positions (#6-10) account for 10.17% (JavaScript, R, SQL, Visual Basic, Go), and the next ten (#11-20) represent an additional 11.12% (Rust, PHP, Fortran, Scratch, Perl, MATLAB, Assembly, Swift, Delphi, Dart). The remaining languages collectively make up 12.81% (#21-50) and 12.93% (#51-100). This distribution highlights that while Python leads, the top ten is dominated by a small group of languages.",
  "summary": "\"In November's edition of the TIOBE Index, Rust has dropped out of Top 10,\" writes I-Programmer, noting that Rust ceded the #10 position to Go. \"At the same time, another Google-originated language, Dart, has entered the top 20 ousting Julia after only one month.\" TIOBE explains Dart's popularity is mainly being driven by Flutter, Google's framework for building cross-platform mobile…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}