Core Insights - C has regained the title of "Programming Language of the Year" in the 2025 TIOBE index, marking a significant rise in its ranking after three years [1] - The programming landscape is shifting, with C and C++ swapping positions, and C language maintaining its dominance in the embedded systems market [1] - Perl has made a remarkable leap from 32nd to 11th place, while R language has returned to the top ten, driven by growth in the data science sector [1] - Go language has fallen out of the top ten, and Ruby has dropped out of the top twenty, indicating a potential decline in their usage [1] Ranking Summary - Python remains the top programming language with a rating of 22.61%, although it has seen a slight decrease of 0.68% [2] - C has moved up to the second position with a rating of 10.99%, showing an increase of 2.13% [2] - Java and C++ have dropped to third and fourth positions, respectively, with Java at 8.71% (down 1.44%) and C++ at 8.67% (down 1.62%) [2] - C holds the fifth position with a rating of 7.39%, reflecting an increase of 2.94% [2] - Visual Basic and SQL are in sixth and eighth positions, respectively, with ratings of 2.41% and 2.27% [2] - R has climbed to the tenth position with a rating of 1.82%, up by 0.81% [2] - Perl's rise to 11th place with a rating of 1.63% marks a significant increase of 1.14% [2] - Rust has moved to 13th place with a rating of 1.51%, showing a modest increase of 0.34% [2] - Go has dropped to 16th place with a rating of 1.24%, down by 1.37% [2]