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TIOBE Index for May 2023 – Which Programming Language is Most Popular?

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.

It has been stated before, programming language popularity is rather stable. If we look at the first 10 programming languages in the TIOBE index, then C# is the youngest of them all. C# started in 2000. That is 23 years ago! Almost every day a new programming language is born, but hardly any of them enter the top 100. At least not in their first 10 years. The only languages younger than 10 years in the current top 100 are: Swift (#14), Rust (#17), Crystal (#48), Solidity (#59), Pony (#71), Raku (#72), Zig (#88) and Hack (#92). None of them are less than 5 years old. In other words, it is almost impossible to hit the charts as a newbie. On the contrary, we see that golden oldies revive. Take for instance Fortran, which is back in the top 20 thanks to the growing demand for numerical computational power. So, if you have just invented a brand new language, please have some patience! — Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software

You can read the details of how and why languages are popular at the TIOBE website. If you are a developer, you will find this information interesting.

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TIOBE Index for January 2023 – Which Language is Most Popular?

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.

Scripting language Lua is back in the top 20 of the TIOBE index. In its heyday in 2011, Lua briefly touched a top 10 position. Whether this is going to happen again is unknown. But it is clear that Lua is catching up in the game development market: easy to learn, fast to execute, and simple to interface with C. This makes Lua a perfect candidate for this job. One of the drivers behind the recent success of Lua is the very popular gaming platform Roblox, which uses Lua as its main programming language. –Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software

TIOBE also announced that C++ is the programming language of 2022. You can read the details of how and why at the TIOBE website, as well as see the runners up (C and Python). If you are a developer, you will find this information interesting.

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TIOBE Index for March 2022 – Which Language is Most Popular?

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.

Scripting language Lua is back in the top 20 of the TIOBE index. In its heyday in 2011, Lua briefly touched a top 10 position. Whether this is going to happen again is unknown. But it is clear that Lua is catching up in the game development market: easy to learn, fast to execute, and simple to interface with C. This makes Lua a perfect candidate for this job. One of the drivers behind the recent success of Lua is the very popular gaming platform Roblox, which uses Lua as its main programming language. –Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software

You’ll also notice Python has moved to the top, and Java has lost some popularity and is down to 3th.

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TIOBE Index for January 2022 – Which Language is Most Popular?

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.

Python started at position #3 of the TIOBE index at the beginning of 2021 and left both Java and C behind to become the number one of the TIOBE index. But Python’s popularity didn’t stop there. It is currently more than 1 percent ahead of the rest. Java’s all-time record of 26.49% ratings in 2001 is still far away, but Python has it all to become the de facto standard programming language for many domains. There are no signs that Python’s triumphal march will stop soon.– Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software

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TIOBE Index for November 2021

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.

Since the start of the TIOBE index, more than 20 years ago, PHP has been a permanent top 10 player. Recently, we saw PHP struggling to stay in that top 10. PHP was once the master of web programming, but now it is facing a lot of competition in this field. This is not to say that PHP is dead. There are still a lot of small and medium enterprises relying on PHP. So I expect PHP to decline further but in a very slow pace. Two of PHP’s competitors, Ruby and Groovy, gain both 3 positions this month. Ruby from #16 to #13 and Groovy from #15 to #12. Other interesting moves this month are Lua (from #32 to #26), Dart (from #40 to #31), and Kotlin (from #38 to #33). — Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software

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TIOBE Index for April 2021

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.

Objective-C’s fame came to a sudden stop when, in 2014, Apple announced that there was a new language called Swift that should replace Objective-C. Remarkably, it took a long time before Swift was more popular than Objective-C. Only 7 years after its death sentence, Objective-C is now leaving the top 20. But there is still hope for Objective-C because old languages sometimes strike back. Take a look at Fortran! This dinosaur is back in the top 20 after more than 10 years. Fortran was the first commercial programming language ever, and is gaining popularity thanks to the massive need for (scientific) number crunching. Welcome back Fortran.

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TIOBE Index for January 2021

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. 

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TIOBE Index for December 2020

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. 

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TIOBE Index for November 2020

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. 

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TIOBE Index for October 2020

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.

Programming languages used for teaching children to program have made significant movement towards the top 20 of the language lists, but this is expected in light of our current work-from-home environment. Another change is from now on “Visual Basic .NET” is called “Visual Basic” and the old entry “Visual Basic” is renamed to “Classic Visual Basic”.

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TIOBE Index for April 2020

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.

Programming languages used for teaching children to program have made significant movement towards the top 20 of the language lists, but this is expected in light of our current work-from-home environment. Another chnage is from now on “Visual Basic .NET” is called “Visual Basic” and the old entry “Visual Basic” is renamed to “Classic Visual Basic”.

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TIOBE Index for August 2019

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.

Programming language Python is is now in the top 3 of the TIOBE index. Since Python surpassed C++ and became number 3, it has achieved an all time high for the scripting language of Guido van Rossum. Nothing much has changed recently in the TIOBE index. In the top 10 only Objective-C and Python have made any significant gains. 

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Julia Programming Language

After years of working on the details, the dynamic programming language Julia 1.0 was officially released to the public during JuliaCon, an annual conference of Julia users held recently in London.

Julia 1.0 is a huge Julia milestone since MIT Professor Alan Edelman, Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral Shah released Julia to developers in 2012.

Julia is free and open source language that was developed and incubated at MIT with more than 700 active open source contributors, 1,900 registered packages, 41,000 GitHub stars, 2 million downloads, and a reported 101 percent annual rate of download growth. It is used at more than 700 universities and research institutions and by companies such as Aviva, BlackRock, Capital One, and Netflix.

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TIOBE Index for August 2018

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.

Programming language Python is getting very close to the top 3 of the TIOBE index. If Python surpasses C++ and becomes number 3, this will be an all time high for the scripting language of Guido van Rossum. In 2005 there was a study what programming language was taught most at US universities and Java appeared to be a clear number one with 60% of all introductory programming courses. Similar research was conducted almost 10 years later in 2014 and the outcome was different. This time Python was a clear winner with more than 70% “market share”.

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Top Programming Languages in 2017

What computer languages will be the most popular in 2017? This is actually a relevant question for new and long-time programmers if they want to make sure they are learning and using a popular (an potenially marketable) computer language.

In this article byMahesh Chand, we see his research into what the most popular languages are for now:

The most in-demand programming language can be directly proportional to the number of jobs available in the market. Based on the data gathered from Indeed, a report published on CodingDojo lists the languages, given below, as the most in-demand in 2016:

  • SQL
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • C#
  • Python
  • C++
  • PHP
  • Objective-C/Swift
  • Ruby/Ruby on Rails

Business Insider ranks the languages, given below, as the most in-demand.

  • Java
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • C
  • Objective-C
  • JavaScript
  • Visual Basic
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • CSS
  • R

RedMonk Programming Language Rankings for Q3 2016

Looking a how popular a programming language is on Stack Overflow and the popularity of those same languages on GitHub allows for a analysis of what languages are most popular. The article by Stephen O’Grady reads: “The idea is not to offer a statistically valid representation of current usage, but rather to correlate language discussion (Stack Overflow) and usage (GitHub) in an effort to extract insights into potential future adoption trends.”

  • To be included in this analysis, a language must be observable within both GitHub and Stack Overflow.
  • No claims are made here that these rankings are representative of general usage more broadly. They are nothing more or less than an examination of the correlation between two populations we believe to be predictive of future use, hence their value.
  • There are many potential communities that could be surveyed for this analysis. GitHub and Stack Overflow are used here first because of their size and second because of their public exposure of the data necessary for the analysis. We encourage, however, interested parties to perform their own analyses using other sources.
  • All numerical rankings should be taken with a grain of salt. We rank by numbers here strictly for the sake of interest. In general, the numerical ranking is substantially less relevant than the language’s tier or grouping. In many cases, one spot on the list is not distinguishable from the next. The separation between language tiers on the plot, however, is generally representative of substantial differences in relative popularity.
  • GitHub language rankings are based on raw lines of code, which means that repositories written in a given language that include a greater amount of code in a second language (e.g. JavaScript) will be read as the latter rather than the former.
  • In addition, the further down the rankings one goes, the less data available to rank languages by. Beyond the top tiers of languages, depending on the snapshot, the amount of data to assess is minute, and the actual placement of languages becomes less reliable the further down the list one proceeds.

Top 20 Languages as reported by RedMonk

  1. JavaScript
  2. Java
  3. PHP
  4. Python
  5. C#
  6. C++
  7. Ruby
  8. CSS
  9. C
  10. Objective-C
  11. Shell
  12. R
  13. Perl
  14. Scala
  15. Go
  16. Haskell
  17. Swift
  18. Matlab
  19. Visual Basic
  20. Clojure

Is Object Oriented Programming Dead?

Object Oriented Programming has been around for many years, and it used in most of the newer programming languages. According to Wikipedia, the list of object-oriented languages include Java, C++, C#, Python, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Delphi, Objective-C, Swift, Common Lisp, and Smalltalk. I haven’t used all of these languages, but I’ve used Object Oriented Programming for many years in multiple languages.

In this article by Charles Scalfani we learn that maybe everything isn’t all roses and rainbows on the Object Oriented ranch. People are starting to question how useful and powerful these Object Oriented features really are.

At first glance, Inheritance appears to be the biggest benefit of the Object Oriented Paradigm. All the simplistic examples of shape hierarchies that are paraded out as examples to the newly indoctrinated seem to make logical sense.

 

And Reuse is the word of the day. No… make that the year and perhaps evermore.

I swallowed this whole and rushed out into the world with my newfound insight.

Banana Monkey Jungle Problem

With religion in my heart and problems to solve, I started building Class Hierarchies and writing code. And all was right with the world.

I’ll never forget that day when I was ready to cash in on the promise of Reuse by inheriting from an existing class. This was the moment I had been waiting for.

A new project came along and I thought back to that Class that I was so fond of in my last project.

No problem. Reuse to the rescue. All I gotta do is simply grab that Class from the other project and use it.

Well… actually… not just that Class. We’re gonna need the parent Class. But… But that’s it.

Ugh… Wait… Looks like we gonna also need the parent’s parent too… And then… We’re going to need ALL of the parents. Okay… Okay… I handle this. No problem.

And great. Now it won’t compile. Why?? Oh, I see… This object contains this other object. So I’m gonna need that too. No problem.

Wait… I don’t just need that object. I need the object’s parent and its parent’s parent and so on and so on with every contained object and ALL the parents of what those contain along with their parent’s, parent’s, parent’s…

Ugh.

There’s a great quote by Joe Armstrong, the creator of Erlang:

The problem with object-oriented languages is they’ve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.

Banana Monkey Jungle Solution

I can tame this problem by not creating hierarchies that are too deep. But if Inheritance is the key to Reuse, then any limits I place on that mechanism will surely limit the benefits of Reuse. Right?

Right.

So what’s a poor Object Oriented Programmer, who’s had a healthy helping of the Kool-aid, to do?

Top Programming Languages in 2016

Programming languages evolve over time, either improving or fading out as new technology is introduced. As a developer you have to educate yourself on those changes, and they could mea switching to a newer and better programming language. Here is a list of languages considered important for 2016.

1.    SQL

It’s no surprise SQL tops the job list since it can be found far and wide in various flavors. Database technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server power big businesses, small businesses, hospitals, banks, universities. Indeed, just about every computer and person with access to technology eventually touches something SQL. For instance, all Android phones and iPhones have access to a SQL database called SQLite and many mobile apps developed Google, Skype and DropBox use it directly.

2.    Java

The tech community recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of Java. It’s one of the most widely adopted programming languages, used by some 9 million developers and running on 7 billion devices worldwide. It’s also the programming language used to develop all native Android apps. Java’s popularity with developers is due to the fact that the language is grounded in readability and simplicity. Java has staying power since it has long-term compatibility, which makes sure older applications continue to work now into the future. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon and is used to power company websites like LinkedIn.com, Netflix.com and Amazon.com.

3.    JavaScript

JavaScript – not to be confused with Java – is another one of the world’s most popular and powerful programming languages, and is used to spice up web pages by making them interactive. For example, JavaScript can be used to add effects to web pages, display pop-up messages or to create games with basic functionality. It’s also worth noting that JavaScript is the scripting language of the World Wide Web and is built right into all major web browsers including Internet Explorer, FireFox and Safari. Almost every website incorporates some element of JavaScript to add to the user experience, adding to the demand for JavaScript developers. In recent years JavaScript has also gained use as the foundation of Node.js, a server technology that among other things enables real-time communication.  

4.    C#

Dating from 2000, C# is a relatively new programming language designed by Microsoft for a wide range of enterprise applications that run on the .NET Framework. An evolution of C and  C++, the C# language is simple, modern, type safe and object oriented.

5.    C++

C++ is a general purpose object-oriented programming language based on the earlier ‘C’ language. Developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs, C++ was first released in 1983.

6.    Python

Python is a general purpose programming language that is simple and incredibly readable since closely resembles the English language. It’s a great language for beginners, all the way up to seasoned professionals. Python recently bumped Java as the language of choice in introductory programming courses with eight of the top 10 computer science departments now using Python to teach coding, as well as 27 of the top 39 schools. Because of Python’s use in the educational realm, there are a lot of libraries created for Python related to mathematics, physics and natural processing. PBS, NASA and Reddit use Python for their websites.

7.    Ruby on Rails

Like Java or the C language, Ruby is a general purpose programming language, though it is best known for its use in web programming, and Rails serves as a framework for the Ruby Language. Ruby on Rails has many positive qualities including rapid development, you don’t need as much code, and there are a wide variety of 3rd party libraries available. It’s used from companies ranging from small start-ups to large enterprises and everything in-between. Hulu, Twitter, Github and Living Social are using Ruby on Rails for at least one of their web applications.

8.   Swift

In 2014, Apple decided to invent their own programming language. The result was Swift – a new programming language for iOS and OS X developers to create their next killer app. Developers will find that many parts of Swift are familiar from their experience of developing in C++ and Objective-C. Companies including American Airlines, LinkedIn, and Duolingo have been quick to adopt Swift, and we’ll see this language on the rise in the coming years.

TIOBE Index for December 2015

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.

The biggest declines in the TIOBE index, compared to one year ago, are Objective-C (from 3rd place to 15th place) and R (from 12th place to 18th place). You can explain the drop for the once-popular Objective-C language to Apple’s decision to move development to Swift. Java’s still at the top with a very strong lead.

 

Dec 2015Dec 2014ChangeProgramming LanguageRatingsChange
12Java20.973%+6.01%
21C16.460%-1.13%
34C++5.943%-0.16%
48Python4.429%+2.14%
55C#4.114%-0.21%
66PHP2.792%+0.05%
79Visual Basic .NET2.390%+0.16%
87JavaScript2.363%-0.07%
910Perl2.209%+0.38%
1018Ruby2.061%+1.08%

Read the entire results at this site.

GitHub: Popular Programming Languages

If you are learning to write code or are just considering a new programming language, it will definitely helps to know which languages are the most popular. The idea is that a language that is more popular will usually mean more support from other programmers and more job opportunities. The internet site GitHub has tracked historical popularity of various programming languages used by 10 million users since 2008 to rank the overall popularity of languages using the data collected by Linguist.

The top 5 languages right now: JavaScript, Java, Ruby, PHP, and Python. You can read the GitHub article here.

IEEE: The 2015 Top Ten Programming Languages

If you are learning to write code or are just considering a new programming language, it will definitely helps to know which languages are the most popular. The idea is that a language that is more popular will usually mean more support from other programmers and more job opportunities. The  professional association IEEE has performed some research by weighing and combining 12 metrics from 10 data sources (CareerBuilder, GitHub, etc.) to rank the overall popularity of 48 languages and reveal the current top ranking programming languages.

The top 5 languages are the same as last year: Java, C, C++, Python, and C#. You can read the article here. You can get full access to the data for $.99, if you are interested.

The big five—Java, C, C++, Python, and C#—remain on top, with their ranking undisturbed, but C has edged to within a whisper of knocking Java off the top spot. The big mover is R, a statistical computing language that’s handy for analyzing and visualizing big data, which comes in at sixth place. Last year it was in ninth place, and its move reflects the growing importance of big data to a number of fields. A significant amount of movement has occurred further down in the rankings, as languages like Go, Perl, and even Assembly jockey for position.

A few languages have dropped off the rankings compared with last year’s. Mostly this is due to an insufficient presence in this year’s data to justify keeping them in. But in one case, an entry was dropped because we agreed with comments on last year’s ranking that said we had made a mistake in categorizing it as a language rather than just a framework. This was ASP.NET, and we had originally included it because of our pragmatic approach to the definition of programming language—a lack of Turing completeness is not an absolute bar, and we make no apologies for including things like HTML—but we were too broad on that one.

A number of languages have entered the rankings for the first time. Swift, Apple’s new language, has already gained enough traction to make a strong appearance despite being released only 13 months ago. Cuda is another interesting entry—it’s a language created by graphics chip company Nvidia that’s designed for general-purpose computing using the company’s powerful but specialized graphics processors, which can be found in many desktop and mobile devices. Seven languages in all are appearing for the first time.

Microsoft unveils Visual Studio Code for Windows, Mac, and Linux

Something wonderful has happened in the Microsoft-centric developer world, Microsoft has created a development tool for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. In the non-Microsoft world, that wouldn’t be such a remarkable thing. For Microsoft, this is a very big deal. The new product, Visual Studio Code, is a code-optimized editor with built-in support for dozens of different languages (JavaScript, C#, C++, PHP, Java, HTML, R, CSS, SQL, Markdown, TypeScript, LESS, SASS, JSON, XML, and Python are examples). It also has support for debugging, the version control tool Git and Microsoft Intellisense. It is a solid code editor, along the lines of something like you would expect to see in a standard open-source development tool. The surprise is it is from Microsoft.

You can read more about the tool from Microsoft.

Choosing a Programming Language

So you are interested in programming, but just don’t know which language to choose? Here is an interesting infographic that may help you make a decision:

You can see the full-size image here. You can get more information about programming choices here.

Highest-Paying Programming Languages

Technology is a driving force in most companies, so it’s certainly no surprise that programming skills are in high demand; however, it seems that some languages are in higher demand than others (and therefore pay more). If you look at the rankings provided by IEEE and Quartz, you’ll quickly notice some overlap in languages in the top spots; however, there is a huge disconnect particularly in the case of Ruby (which ranks eighth in IEEE’s ranking but first in Quartz’s). Following up on that same train of thought, you’ll also pick up on the fact that Ruby on Rails is noted on the rankings. While Ruby on Rails is a framework (as opposed to Ruby, which is the language behind it), many jobs requesting candidates with experience in Ruby necessitate the inclusion of actually knowing how to work with Ruby on Rails.

According to the rankings by Quartz, the languages Ruby, Objective C, Python, Java, and C++ are the programming languages that net the highest-paying jobs, with Ruby programmers averaging annual salaries of more than $109,ooo. Check out the rest of the highest-paying programming languages below.

What Computer Language Should I Learn?

If you are considering a career in computer programming, one decision you will have to make is what language you will use when writing your new programs. I reality, most programmers know more than one language. You have start somewhere, and you don’t want to pick the wrong language. Even if you are already a professional developer you might be curious about what new language you can add to your resume.

You can read this story by Craig Buckler to learn more about what research you can get access to to help in your decision.

IEEE Spectrum All Languages Top 20

  1. Java
  2. C
  3. C++
  4. Python
  5. C#
  6. PHP
  7. JavaScript
  8. Ruby
  9. R
  10. MATLAB
  11. Perl
  12. SQL
  13. Assembly
  14. HTML
  15. Visual Basic
  16. Objective-C
  17. Scala
  18. Shell
  19. Arduino
  20. Go
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