Have you seen the latest TIOBE rankings report?
The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
C is still number one, but it is Python that claims the second position now. Some say that Python’s recent surge in popularity is due to booming fields such as data mining, AI and numerical computing.
Python has won the TIOBE programming language of the year award! This is for the fourth time in the history, which is a record! The title is awarded to the programming language that has gained most popularity in one year. Python made a positive jump of 2.01% in 2020. Programming language C++ is a very close runner up with an increase of 1.99%. Other winners are C (+1.66%), Groovy (+1.23%) and R (+1.10%).
| Jan 2021 | Jan 2020 | Change | Programming Language | Ratings | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |  |
C | 17.38% | +1.61% |
| 2 | 1 |  |
Java | 11.96% | -4.93% |
| 3 | 3 | Python | 11.72% | +2.01% | |
| 4 | 4 | C++ | 7.56% | +1.99% | |
| 5 | 5 | C# | 3.95% | -1.40% | |
| 6 | 6 | Visual Basic | 3.84% | -1.44% | |
| 7 | 7 | JavaScript | 2.20% | -0.25% | |
| 8 | 8 | PHP | 1.99% | -0.41% | |
| 9 | 18 |  |
R | 1.90% | +1.10% |
| 10 | 23 | |
Groovy | 1.84% | +1.23% |
The TIOBE Top 10 for this month: Read the entire results at this site.
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