TIOBE Programming Community Index for December 2011 Page 1 of 8 December Headline: C++ about to be dethroned by C# Since the beginning of the TIOBE index back in 2001, the programming language C++ has been number 3 of the chart in a very consistent way. Perl, Visual Basic and PHP have been number 3 too, but these languages could keep this position only for a few months. Now C# is knocking on the door. It will certainly be a tough battle again. C# is Microsoft's most active and evolving programming language, whereas Microsoft recently announced to revive C++ in favor of... C#. We will see what will happen 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, 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 Dec 2011 Position Dec 2010 Delta in Position Programming Language Ratings Dec 2011 Delta Dec 2010 Status 1 1 Java 17.561% -0.44% A 2 2 C 17.057% +0.98% A 3 3 C++ 8.252% -0.76% A 4 5 C# 8.205% +1.52% A 5 8 Objective-C 6.805% +3.56% A 6 4 PHP 6.001% -1.51% A 7 7 (Visual) Basic 4.757% -0.36% A 8 6 Python 3.492% -2.99% A 9 9 Perl 2.472% +0.14% A 10 12 JavaScript 2.199% +0.69% A 11 11 Ruby 1.494% -0.29% A 12 10 Delphi/Object Pascal 1.245% -0.93% A 13 13 Lisp 1.175% +0.11% A 14 23 PL/SQL 0.803% +0.24% A 15 14 Transact-SQL 0.746% -0.03% A
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TIOBE Programming Community Index for December 2011
DECEMBER HEADLINE: C++ ABOUT TO BE DETHRONED BY C#.
Since the beginning of the TIOBE index back in 2001, the programming language C++ has been number 3 of the chart in a very consistent way. Perl, Visual Basic and PHP have been number 3 too, but these languages could keep this position only for a few months. Now C# is knocking on the door. It will certainly be a tough battle again. C# is Microsoft's most active and evolving programming language, whereas Microsoft recently announced to revive C++ in favor of... C#. We will see what will happen the next few months.
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TIOBE Programming Community Index for December 2011
Page 1 of 8
December Headline: C++ about to be dethroned by C#
Since the beginning of the TIOBE index back in 2001, the programming language C++ has been number 3 of the chart in a
very consistent way. Perl, Visual Basic and PHP have been number 3 too, but these languages could keep this position only
for a few months. Now C# is knocking on the door. It will certainly be a tough battle again. C# is Microsoft's most active and
evolving programming language, whereas Microsoft recently announced to revive C++ in favor of... C#. We will see what
will happen 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, 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