Tiobe survey has C# nipping at C++'s heels in popularity, but C++ holds edge in growing mobile development field ...

Survey finds Visual Basic developers are moving to Microsoft's upgraded Visual Basic .Net as well as to Java and other language alternatives.

Wylie Wong sits with Microsoft's John Montgomery, who has the chore of trying to convince millions of Java developers to embrace .Net technology.

C# is on track to take fourth place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index, but the rankings stick to the status quo in October.

Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#.