TIOBE Programming Community Index

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TIOBE Programming Community Index for April 2012

April Headline: Java and C swap places at the top of the TIOBE index 

 

It took some time but Java's long term downward trend line finally crosses C's stable (almost flat) popularity line. Although it is expected that Java will not decline much further due to the popularity of the Android platform, C is able to remain number one for at least another couple of months. This can be concluded by looking at the extrapolation of moving averages for both languages.
Other interesting moves this month are the entrances of Visual FoxPro (#42), Scala (#45) and Alice (#48) in the top 50. Out are good old programming languages Eiffel, PL/I and Tcl.
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
Apr 2012
Position
Apr 2011
Delta in Position
Programming Language
Ratings
Apr 2012
Delta
Apr 2011
Status
1
2

C
17.555%
+1.39%
  A
2
1

Java
17.026%
-2.02%
  A
3
3

C++
8.896%
-0.33%
  A
4
8

Objective-C
8.236%
+3.85%
  A
5
4

C#
7.348%
+0.16%
  A
6
5

PHP
5.288%
-1.30%
  A
7
7

(Visual) Basic
4.962%
+0.28%
  A
8
6

Python
3.665%
-1.27%
  A
9
10

JavaScript
2.879%
+1.37%
  A
10
9

Perl
2.387%
+0.40%
  A
11
11

Ruby
1.510%
+0.03%
  A
12
24

PL/SQL
1.373%
+0.92%
  A
13
13

Delphi/Object Pascal
1.370%
+0.34%
  A
14
35

Visual Basic .NET
0.978%
+0.64%
  A
15
15

Lisp
0.951%
+0.02%
  A
16
17

Pascal
0.812%
+0.10%
  A
17
16

Ada
0.783%
+0.01%
  A--
18
18

Transact-SQL
0.760%
+0.18%
  A
19
22

Logo
0.652%
+0.12%
  B
20
52

NXT-G
0.578%
+0.35%
  B