TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen attributed this to Python’s ease of learning and the high demand for new programmers.

"The demand for new programmers is still high," Jansen said, even if "developing applications completely in AI is not possible yet."

Despite Python’s success, the February edition of the TIOBE Index shows little movement among the top ten programming languages.

The only notable declines were in older languages, with C dropping from second to fourth place and PHP slipping from tenth to fourteenth. Visual Basic also experienced a slight decrease, moving from ninth to tenth place.

A key trend highlighted in the rankings is the growing popularity of fast programming languages.

 "Fast programming languages are gaining popularity," Jansen remarked in February’s TIOBE Programming Community Index. He specifically pointed to C++ (#2), Go (#8), and Rust (#13, up from #18 a year ago) as benefiting from this trend.

Other notable shifts in the rankings include:

• C++ maintains its strong position in second place.
• Mojo and Zig are gaining momentum, reaching #51 and #56, respectively, with projections soon placing them in the top 50.

"Now that the world needs to crunch more and more numbers per second, and hardware is not evolving fast enough, the speed of programs is getting important. Having said this, it is not surprising that the fast programming languages are gaining ground in the TIOBE index," Jansen explained.

Rust's highest-ever score in the TIOBE points system was 1.47 percent, and Jansen expects Go to remain in the top ten in the future.