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Once-faltering Java is beginning to run away with the Tiobe language popularity index, with the language getting a shot in the arm from last year's Java 8 release.

Previously mired in second place behind the C language for more than a year, Java resumed the top spot in the Tiobe index in April and continues to put distance between itself and C.

"Java is now almost 4.5 percent ahead of the rest of the pack," a report accompanying this month's index, posted Thursday, said. "We have to go back to 2008 to see such a big difference between Java and the number 2 of the Tiobe index. Java version 8 is clearly a success. This is mainly thanks to the functional programming idiom that has been added to this latest version."

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