TIOBE Programming Community Index for August 2012
August Headline: Where is C# heading?
Microsoft's C# programming language shows a downward trend for 8 months
now. What is happening? On the one hand C# is generally recognized as
the enterprise language with most modern and expressive features
available today and C# has shown more downward trends in the past and
always recovered from this. But, Microsoft announced recently the
revival of C++ (in favor of C#) within its company. C# appeared to be
too high level to build high performance systems. This is confirmed by
what we see happening to TIOBE's embedded software customers: after
years of enthusiastic adoption of C#, there is now no significant growth
any more. Let's see what happens to C# the next few months.
The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the
popularity of programming
languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on
the number of
skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The
popular search engines Google, 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 index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a
strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new
software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.
| Position Aug 2012 | Position Aug 2011 | Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Aug 2012 | Delta Aug 2011 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
 |
C | 18.937% | +1.55% | A |
| 2 | 1 |
 |
Java | 16.352% | -3.06% | A |
| 3 | 6 |
|
Objective-C | 9.540% | +4.05% | A |
| 4 | 3 |
|
C++ | 9.333% | +0.90% | A |
| 5 | 5 |  |
C# | 6.590% | +0.55% | A |
| 6 | 4 |
|
PHP | 5.524% | -0.61% | A |
| 7 | 7 | |
(Visual) Basic | 5.334% | +0.32% | A |
| 8 | 8 | |
Python | 3.876% | +0.46% | A |
| 9 | 9 | |
Perl | 2.273% | -0.04% | A |
| 10 | 12 |
|
Ruby | 1.691% | +0.36% | A |
| 11 | 10 |
|
JavaScript | 1.365% | -0.19% | A |
| 12 | 13 |
|
Delphi/Object Pascal | 1.012% | -0.06% | A |
| 13 | 14 |
|
Lisp | 0.975% | +0.07% | A |
| 14 | 26 |
|
Visual Basic .NET | 0.877% | +0.41% | A |
| 15 | 15 | |
Transact-SQL | 0.849% | +0.03% | A |
| 16 | 18 |
|
Pascal | 0.793% | +0.13% | A |
| 17 | 11 |
|
Lua | 0.726% | -0.64% | A-- |
| 18 | 16 |
|
Ada | 0.649% | -0.05% | B |
| 19 | 22 |
|
PL/SQL | 0.610% | +0.08% | B |
| 20 | 29 |
|
MATLAB | 0.533% | +0.09% | B |
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