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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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Windows 11 Alpha-Themed Malware Attacks

With the newest version of Windows, named Windows 11, just a few months away and criminals have started distributing malware with content targeting a user’s interest in the newest version of Microsoft’s desktop operating system.

Using the same tactics that work (asking users to perform tasks they should know is dangerous) these criminals are attempting to get users interested in Windows 11 information to willingly disable security features on their current computer to view what they assume is Windows 11 themed content.

Security researchers at Anomali, who observed a recent malware campaign from the group that used six different Word documents in an attempt to attack employees at a point-of-sale provider called Clearmind, say the cyber criminals attempted to get users to disable their workstation security so they could view content supposedly showing Windows 11 content.

The attack was attributed to FIN7, an Eastern European threat group, that primarily targets US-based companies that operate on a global scale. Anomali says the infection chain began with a Microsoft Word document (.doc) containing a decoy image claiming to have been made with Windows 11 Alpha. The image asks the user to Enable Editing and Enable Content to begin the next stage of malicious activity.

It’s interesting how the VBA code is stored to make analysis difficult, but it attempts to drop a JavaScript backdoor that appears to have similar functionality with other backdoors reportedly used by FIN7. It is interesting that if the script finds eastern-European specific languages in use (Russian, Ukrainian, etc.) or a virtual machine is currently running, it doesn’t drop its payload and immediately stops executing.

While it might be mildly interesting that they used Windows 11 as a hook to grab the user’s attention, it is still the same basic methods that are used every day to convince users to do something (disable security or violate procedures) to allow the attacker into the user’s workstation. Users have to be educated on what not to do, and the basic security controls have to be in place, to help block this type of attack from being successful.

 

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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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

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016

The latest results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey have been published and it shows that Microsoft needs to rethink their approach to development technologies. They used rely on developers to embrace their vision for technical solutions and development technologies in the enterprise. That relationship is much more complicated today and the latest survey is evidence of that strained relationship.

While the CEO at Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has been talking a good game of changing its partnership with developers, the mission to win back thousands of developers isn’t finished. While Microsoft still gets a lot of developer support with .Net and C#, the company is also helping developers to the cloud with Azure and then extending their reach beyond Microsoft-built technology with support for Node.js and Linux. Can Microsoft win back the hearts and minds of the development community?

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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.

Open Sourcing Edge’s Javascript Engine

Microsoft has announced another product that they are taking to open source. The ChakraCore is the JavaScript engine behind the new Edge browser included with Windows 10. Chakra is the engine used to execute JavaScript that was developed from scratch in 2008 and has the most compatibility with the ECMAScript 6 standard over other engines, including Google’s V8. While Chakra is at the core of only the Edge browser, it is used across Windows 10 to power Universal Applications on Xbox, Windows Phone, and Windows-based tablets.

ChakraCore, which will be made available on GitHub soon, is a self-contained JavaScript virtual machine that Microsoft now allows developers to implement inside their own products. You can read more about the announcement here.

Reasons To Upgrade To Visual Studio 2015

So you are wondering if it is time to bite the bullet and upgrade to the latest version of Visual Studio? This article by Darren Hall gives us 5 little known reasons to get the upgrade completed:

  • Debugging Lambda expressions
  • Javascript and HTML Intellisense and Usage Improvements
  • GIT support improvements and additions
  • Enterprise Single Sign On with Azure Active Directory
  • Intellitest

What features do you think are worth the upgrade?

 

 

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.

Who Codes in 2015?

In a recent survey by Stack Overflow, we see that there are some interesting facts about developers collected from just their visitors:

  • The average developer surveyed is 29 years old
  • About 60% of all developers are under 30 years old
  • Over 92% of developers are male
  • Almost half of all developers have less than 5 years of experience
  • About 25% of developers have more than 10 years of experience
  • About half of developers don’t have a degree in Computer Science
  • 70% reported that they spend 2 hours (or more) each week programming open source software or as an after-hours  hobby
  • The most popular programming languages used are JavaScript, SQL, Java, C#, and PHP
  • Less than 22% use Mac OS X and less than 21% use Linux operating systems
  • About 10% of developers don’t use a source control solution
  • 36% of developers love their job

How Much JavaScript Do You Need to Know For a Job

After you learn some JavaScript, you want to find a good job and get paid for your new skill. But how much JavaScript knowledge is required for that first programming job? Many say that JavaScript is an easy to learn programming language, but like most languages it can be difficult to master. Despite some basic similarities, JavaScript and Java are otherwise unrelated. The syntax of JavaScript is actually derived from C, while the semantics and design are influenced by the Self and Scheme programming languages.

In this article by Jeff Cogswell, we read his thoughts on the subject of what you need to know for that first job, and how to master the important parts of the language.

Below is the bare minimum of what you’ll need to know to work with JavaScript (beyond the absolute basics such as variables, functions, the difference between null and undefined, and so on). For those who have some JavaScript knowledge, the following list might miss some specific elements you think belong there; but the idea here is that, if beginners are at a level where they understand the presented items, they probably understand the language enough to operate effectively.

The Beginner’s List

  • Know the different ways to create objects, such as using the “new” keyword, as well as just declaring an object (such as ‘x = {a:1, b:2};’).
  • Know what a prototype is, what the “this” variable does, and how to use both.
  • Know the difference between a list and an object (and how a list is technically both, and can be used as both).
  • Know that functions are objects that can be passed as parameters into other functions and returned from other functions.
  • Know what closures are and how to use them. This might seem like an advanced topic, but when working with functions returning functions, it’s easy to introduce bugs if you’re not careful.
  • Know how to use functions such as the list’s map and filter functions. With this in mind, I encourage you to read this specification and learn the methods available on all types of objects.
  • Understand the built-in objects (they’re constructors!) and how to use them, including Function and Array (with capital F and A).
  • Know your way around the developer command line and debugger. All the major browsers provide these now.

 

 

 

TIOBE Index for May 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 climbers in the TIOBE index compared to last year are C++ (+1.89), C# (+1.52) and Visual Basic.NET (+1.70). These three programming languages are also the key languages of Microsoft’s Visual Studio. Is this a coincidence? Microsoft’s Visual Studio is one of the few commercial programming environments that stood the test of time. Together with Eclipse it is one of the most frequently used IDEs in industry. So it is no wonder that C++, C# and Visual Basic.NET are on the rise.

The TIOBE Top 10 for this month:

The TIOBE Hall of Fame:

You can see that JavaScript is the 2014 Hall Of Fame winner because it had the highest rise in ratings in a year. This means the popularity of this language is increased a great deal. Read the entire results at this site.

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.

TIOBE Index for March 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.

This month F# has raised in the rankings to number 11. This is also the month that Visual Basic and Pascal have made significant gains.

The TIOBE Top 10 for this month:

The TIOBE Hall of Fame:

You can see that JavaScript is the 2014 Hall Of Fame winner because it had the highest rise in ratings in a year. This means the popularity of this language is increased a great deal. Read the entire results at this site.

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.

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