Monday, October 4, 2010

Popularity of Programming Languages


There are 3 months to go before TIOBE will announce the "programming language of 2010". This award is given to the language that has the fastest rise in ratings in a years time. Currently Objective-C is far ahead with +2.54%. Runner-ups so far are Python (+0.96%) and C# (+0.55%).
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. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about thebest programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.
Position
Oct 2010
Position
Oct 2009
Programming
Language
Ratings
Oct 2010
Delta
Oct 2009
1
1
18.166%
-0.48%
2
2
17.177%
+0.33%
3
4
9.802%
-0.08%
4
3
8.323%
-2.03%
5
5
5.650%
-3.04%
6
6
4.963%
+0.55%
7
7
4.860%
+0.96%
8
12
3.706%
+2.54%
9
8
2.310%
-1.45%
10
10
1.941%
-0.51%
11
9
1.659%
-1.37%
12
11
1.558%
-0.58%
13
17
1.084%
+0.48%
14
24
0.820%
+0.42%
15
15
0.771%
+0.10%
16
18
0.708%
+0.12%
17
29
0.704%
+0.40%
18
14
0.664%
-0.14%
19
19
0.627%
+0.05%
20
-
0.626%
+0.63%




Programming
 Language
Position
Oct 2010
Position
Oct 2005
Position
Oct 1995
Position
Oct 1985
1
1
16
-
2
2
1
1
3
3
2
10
4
4
-
-
5
6
3
4
6
7
-
-
7
8
17
-
8
44
-
-
9
5
4
-
10
24
-
-
13
14
8
2
17
16
11
3



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