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TIOBE Programming Community Index for June 2013
June Headline: JavaScript back in the top 10
This month, JavaScript re-entered the top 10 of the TIOBE index. It is still a bit of a miracle why this ubiquitous language is not yet part of the top 5. JavaScript is the glue of client-side web page programming nowadays. But JavaScript is currently expanding its application domain. Node.js has made JavaScript a server-side programming language and the amount of Javascript based games (mostly browser based) is increasing.
But there are also some threats for JavaScript. The JavaScript language is generally regarded as a programming language in which it is easy to make mistakes. It is interpreted, so most errors show up only at run-time. That's why Google designed Dart (currently at position 80) as JavaScript's successor. But also other programming languages were designed to generate JavaScript code instead of writing it manually. Examples of this are CoffeeScript (position 139) and TypeScript (position 207).
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 Jun 2013 |
Position Jun 2012 |
Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Jun 2013 |
Delta Jun 2012 |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | C | 17.809% | +0.08% | A | |
| 2 | 2 | Java | 16.656% | +0.39% | A | |
| 3 | 4 | Objective-C | 10.356% | +1.26% | A | |
| 4 | 3 | C++ | 8.819% | -0.54% | A | |
| 5 | 7 | PHP | 5.987% | +0.70% | A | |
| 6 | 5 | C# | 5.783% | -1.24% | A | |
| 7 | 6 | (Visual) Basic | 4.348% | -1.70% | A | |
| 8 | 8 | Python | 4.183% | +0.33% | A | |
| 9 | 9 | Perl | 2.273% | +0.05% | A | |
| 10 | 11 | JavaScript | 1.654% | +0.18% | A | |
| 11 | 10 | Ruby | 1.479% | -0.20% | A | |
| 12 | 12 | Visual Basic .NET | 1.067% | -0.15% | A | |
| 13 | 17 | Transact-SQL | 0.913% | +0.21% | A | |
| 14 | 14 | Lisp | 0.879% | -0.11% | A | |
| 15 | 16 | Pascal | 0.779% | -0.07% | A | |
| 16 | 21 | Bash | 0.711% | +0.09% | A | |
| 17 | 19 | PL/SQL | 0.657% | +0.02% | A-- | |
| 18 | 13 | Delphi/Object Pascal | 0.602% | -0.55% | A-- | |
| 19 | 18 | Ada | 0.575% | -0.11% | B | |
| 20 | 22 | MATLAB | 0.563% | 0.00% | B |
Long term trends
The long term trends for the top 10 programming languages can be found in the line diagram below.
Other programming languages
The complete top 50 of programming languages is listed below. This overview is published unofficially, because it could be the case that we missed a language. If you have the impression there is a programming language lacking, please notify us at [email protected].
| Position | Programming Language | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | SAS | 0.543% |
| 22 | Lua | 0.537% |
| 23 | Assembly | 0.500% |
| 24 | R | 0.480% |
| 25 | D | 0.474% |
| 26 | COBOL | 0.441% |
| 27 | ABAP | 0.436% |
| 28 | Fortran | 0.407% |
| 29 | Scheme | 0.381% |
| 30 | Haskell | 0.322% |
| 31 | Erlang | 0.317% |
| 32 | Prolog | 0.313% |
| 33 | Scratch | 0.308% |
| 34 | Scala | 0.290% |
| 35 | Logo | 0.270% |
| 36 | Groovy | 0.269% |
| 37 | NXT-G | 0.235% |
| 38 | Smalltalk | 0.231% |
| 39 | APL | 0.222% |
| 40 | Forth | 0.212% |
| 41 | ML | 0.204% |
| 42 | ActionScript | 0.198% |
| 43 | F# | 0.166% |
| 44 | JScript.NET | 0.153% |
| 45 | Awk | 0.153% |
| 46 | Tcl | 0.144% |
| 47 | ATLAS | 0.143% |
| 48 | RPG (OS/400) | 0.140% |
| 49 | PL/I | 0.137% |
| 50 | Algol | 0.135% |
The Next 50 Programming Languages
The following list of languages denotes #51 to #100. Since the differences are relatively small, the programming languages are only listed (in alphabetical order).
- (Visual) FoxPro, ABC, Alice, Apex, Applescript, AutoLISP, bc, C shell, CFML, CL (OS/400), Clojure, Common Lisp, Dart, Dylan, ECMAScript, Eiffel, Emacs Lisp, Go, Gosu, Heron, Icon, IDL, Informix-4GL, J, JavaFX Script, LabVIEW, Ladder Logic, Lasso, LPC, Mathematica, MS-DOS batch, MUMPS, NATURAL, Oberon, OCaml, Occam, OpenCL, Oz, PowerShell, Q, REXX, S, sed, Simulink, Smarty, SPARK, VBScript, VHDL, xBase, XSLT
Very Long Term History
To see the bigger picture, please find the positions of the top 10 programming languages from 5, 15 and 25 years ago in the table below.
| Programming Language | Position June 2013 |
Position June 2008 |
Position June 1998 |
Position June 1988 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Java | 2 | 1 | 3 | - |
| Objective-C | 3 | 42 | - | - |
| C++ | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| PHP | 5 | 4 | - | - |
| C# | 6 | 8 | - | - |
| (Visual) Basic | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 |
| Python | 8 | 7 | 30 | - |
| Perl | 9 | 6 | 7 | - |
| JavaScript | 10 | 9 | 17 | - |
| Lisp | 14 | 16 | 19 | 2 |
| Ada | 19 | 17 | 10 | 3 |
Programming Language 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 |
|---|---|
| 2012 | Objective-C |
| 2011 | Objective-C |
| 2010 | Python |
| 2009 | Go |
| 2008 | C |
| 2007 | Python |
| 2006 | Ruby |
| 2005 | Java |
| 2004 | PHP |
| 2003 | C++ |
Categories of Programming Languages
In the tables below some long term trends are shown about categories of languages. Object-oriented statically typed languages have been most popular for more than 5years now.| Category | Ratings June 2013 | Delta June 2012 |
|---|---|---|
| Object-Oriented Languages | 58.5% | +1.0% |
| Procedural Languages | 36.6% | -0.4% |
| Functional Languages | 3.2% | -0.8% |
| Logical Languages | 1.8% | +0.1% |
| Category | Ratings June 2013 | Delta June 2012 |
|---|---|---|
| Statically Typed Languages | 70.3% | -1.0% |
| Dynamically Typed Languages | 29.7% | +1.0% |