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

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 April 2017

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	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.

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

TIOBE Index for September 2016

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 C has moved to an all time low, but is still in second place. Java is still strong in the number 1 spot. High performance Assembly is still holding onto it’s recent top 10 spot.

The TIOBE Top 10 for this month:

Aug 2016	Aug 2015	Programming Language	Ratings	Change
1	1	Java	19.010%	-0.26%
2	2	C	11.303%	-3.43%
3	3	C++	5.800%	-1.94%
4	4	C#	4.907%	+0.07%
5	5	Python	4.404%	+0.34%
6	7	PHP	3.173%	+0.44%
7	9	JavaScript	2.705%	+0.54%
8	8	Visual Basic .NET	2.518%	-0.19%
9	10	Perl	2.511%	+0.39%
10	12	Assembly language	2.364%	+0.60%

Read the entire results at this site.

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

JavaScript
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Ruby
CSS
C
Objective-C
Shell
R
Perl
Scala
Go
Haskell
Swift
Matlab
Visual Basic
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?

Microsoft JDBC Drivers for SQL Server

Microsoft has announced the release of the Microsoft JDBC Driver 6.0 for SQL Server. These updated drivers provide data access to Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Azure SQL Database for Java-based applications.

You can download the install files here.

TIOBE Index for July 2016

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 Python has moved from 5th last year to 4th place this year. Java is still in the number 1 spot. Objective-C continues to lose territory from last year, dropping from 6th to 15th place. Groovy has really moved up since last year, but has yet to break into the top 10. High performance Assembly is now also in the top 10.

The TIOBE Top 10 for this month:

Jul 2016	Jul 2015	Programming Language	Ratings	Change
1	1	Java	19.804%	+2.08%
2	2	C	12.238%	-3.91%
3	3	C++	6.311%	-2.33%
4	5	Python	4.166%	-0.09%
5	4	C#	3.920%	-1.73%
6	7	PHP	3.272%	+0.38%
7	9	JavaScript	2.643%	+0.45%
8	8	Visual Basic .NET	2.517%	+0.09%
9	11	Perl	2.428%	+0.62%
10	12	Assembly language	2.281%	+0.75%

You can see that Java is the 2015 Hall Of Fame winner because it had the highest rise in ratings in one year. This means the popularity of this language has increased. Read the entire results at this site.

TIOBE Index for May 2016

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 Ruby has jumped from 15th last year to 8th this year. Java is still in the number 1 spot. Objective-C, Visual Basic .NET, R, and MATHLAB have all lost territory from last year.

The TIOBE Top 10 for this month:

May 2016	May 2015	Programming Language	Ratings	Change
1	1	Java	20.956%	+4.09%
2	2	C	13.223%	-3.62%
3	3	C++	6.698%	-1.18%
4	5	C#	4.481%	-0.78%
5	6	Python	3.789%	+0.06%
6	9	PHP	2.992%	+0.27%
7	7	JavaScript	2.340%	-0.79%
8	15	Ruby	2.338%	+1.07%
9	11	Perl	2.326%	+0.51%
10	8	Visual Basic .NET	2.325%	-0.64%

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?

Most Loved Technology

Rust – 79.1%
Swift – 72.1%
F# – 70.7%
Scala – 69.4%
Go – 68.7%

TIOBE Index for March 2016

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 stayed in the TIOBE index top 10, which is better than the 16th spot from this time last year. Java is still in the number 1 spot, and Ruby has shot up from 18th last year to number 10 this year. Assembly and Swift are also moving rapidly up the charts.

The TIOBE Top 10 for this month:

Mar 2016	Mar 2015	Programming Language	Ratings	Change
1	2	Java	20.528%	+4.95%
2	1	C	14.600%	-2.04%
3	4	C++	6.721%	+0.09%
4	5	C#	4.271%	-0.65%
5	8	Python	4.257%	+1.64%
6	6	PHP	2.768%	-1.23%
7	9	Visual Basic .NET	2.561%	+0.24%
8	7	JavaScript	2.333%	-1.30%
9	12	Perl	2.251%	+0.92%
10	18	Ruby	2.238%	+1.21%

TIOBE Index for January 2016

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 stayed in the TIOBE index top 10, which is better than the 16th spot from this time last year. Java is still in the number 1 spot, but that isn’t too significantly better than the January 2015 ranking. It also looks like Assembly and Ruby are making significant improvements from last year.

The TIOBE Top 10 for this month:

Jan 2016	Jan 2015	Programming Language	Ratings	Change
1	2	Java	21.465%	+5.94%
2	1	C	16.036%	-0.67%
3	4	C++	6.914%	+0.21%
4	5	C#	4.707%	-0.34%
5	8	Python	3.854%	+1.24%
6	6	PHP	2.706%	-1.08%
7	16	Visual Basic .NET	2.582%	+1.51%
8	7	JavaScript	2.565%	-0.71%
9	14	Assembly language	2.095%	+0.92%
10	15	Ruby	2.047%	+0.92%

The TIOBE Hall of Fame:

The hall of fame listing all “Programming Language of the Year” award winners is shown below. The award is given to the programming language that has the highest rise in ratings in a year.

Year	Winner
2015	Java
2014	JavaScript
2013	Transact-SQL
2012	Objective-C
2011	Objective-C
2010	Python
2009	Go
2008	C
2007	Python
2006	Ruby

You can see that Java is the 2015 Hall Of Fame winner because it had the highest rise in ratings in a year. This means the popularity of this language has increased. Read the entire results at this site.

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 2015	Dec 2014	Programming Language	Ratings	Change
1	2	Java	20.973%	+6.01%
2	1	C	16.460%	-1.13%
3	4	C++	5.943%	-0.16%
4	8	Python	4.429%	+2.14%
5	5	C#	4.114%	-0.21%
6	6	PHP	2.792%	+0.05%
7	9	Visual Basic .NET	2.390%	+0.16%
8	7	JavaScript	2.363%	-0.07%
9	10	Perl	2.209%	+0.38%
10	18	Ruby	2.061%	+1.08%

Read the entire results at this site.

9 developer trends you can bank on in 2016

As a developer, you are always looking for what is next. What new language or skill will be required in the coming year to set you above your peers and make you more valuable? In this article by Andrew C. Oliver, we learn about the 9 developer trends he feels are important for 2016.

My predictions are a little early this year, but don’t worry, they’re of the same sterling quality you’ve come to expect. Most apply to big data, but I’ve stepped outside the confines of my usual domain here and there for your entertainment. Enjoy.

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