Python, the highest-ranking language ever within the Tiobe index of programming language recognition, has been getting a lift from AI coding assistants, in response to Tiobe.
Within the Tiobe index for July 2025, Python scored a score of 26.98%, the very best ever within the month-to-month index, which dates again to June 2001. Within the Tiobe index for August, revealed August 4, Python as soon as once more simply maintained its high spot within the rankings, although its score slipped barely to 26.14%.
In a bulletin asserting this month’s rankings, Paul Jansen, CEO of Tiobe, theorized that AI assistants have helped enhance Python’s recognition. “We thought Python couldn’t develop any additional, however AI code assistants let Python take one more step ahead,” Jansen mentioned. He famous that there’s extra code obtainable from in style programming languages to coach the AI fashions. This development is seen within the Tiobe index, the place a consolidation of languages on the high is seen, Janson mentioned. “Why would you begin to study a brand new obscure language for which no AI help is obtainable? That is the fashionable approach of claiming that you just don’t need to study a brand new language that’s hardly documented and/or has too few libraries that may assist you to.”