https://adtmag.com/Articles/2024/01/08/C-sharp-TIOBE-language-of-the-year.aspx > For the first time since 2001, when TIOBE Software began publishing the results of its monthly search for the languages in which the most lines of code were written, C# has earned the company's programming language of the year award. C# was the language with the largest usage uptick in one year (+1.43%), the company said. The runners up were Scratch (+0.83%), a visual programming language that allows students to create interactive stories, games, and animations; and Fortran (+0.64%), the venerable a high-level language used especially for scientific computation. > "C# is eating market share from Java and is getting more and more popular in domains such as web application back ends and games (thanks to Unity)," TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen wrote in a blog post. "C# can be used free of charge and evolves in a steady pace, making the language more expressive every new release. C# is here to stay and might even surpass Java soon."