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.
This month Visual Basic.Net has moved up sightly, but the big news is the PHP replacement language called Hack.
The TIOBE Top 10 for this month:
| Apr 2017 | Apr 2016 | Change | Programming Language | Ratings | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Java | 15.568% | -5.28% | |
| 2 | 2 | C | 6.966% | -6.94% | |
| 3 | 3 | C++ | 4.554% | -1.36% | |
| 4 | 4 | C# | 3.579% | -0.22% | |
| 5 | 5 | Python | 3.457% | +0.13% | |
| 6 | 6 | PHP | 3.376% | +0.38% | |
| 7 | 10 |  |
Visual Basic .NET | 3.251% | +0.98% |
| 8 | 7 |  |
JavaScript | 2.851% | +0.28% |
| 9 | 11 | |
Delphi/Object Pascal | 2.816% | +0.60% |
| 10 | 8 | |
Perl | 2.413% | -0.11% |
Read the entire results at this site.
