C takes the top ranking in Tiobe's monthly assessment on the popularity of programming languages
Java
has fallen off the top spot in Tiobe's monthly index on the popularity
of programming languages, giving way to C in the April report released
this week.
C was being used by 17.555 percent of developers in
the Tiobe Programming Community Index for April, while Java was used by
17.026 percent. Last month, Java was used by 17.1 percent of developers while C was used by 17.09 percent of developers.
While
Java has dominated the index over the years, it has slipped out of the
top spot before. Java has been the top language in the index since 2001
with a few exceptions between mid-2004 and mid-2005 and couple of months
in 2010.
"It took some time but Java's long-term downward trend line finally
crosses C's stable (almost flat) popularity line," Tiobe said in its
report this week. "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."
Tiobe also cited other interesting moves this month as the entrances into the top 50 of Visual FoxPro, coming in at number 42; Scala,
at 45 and Alice, ranked 48. Exiting are Eiffel, PL/I, and Tcl. The
index gauges the number of skilled engineers worldwide, courses, and
third-party vendors using a particular language, and ratings are
determined through assessments of popular search engines such as Google,
Bing, and Yahoo, as well as other sites such as Wikipedia, Amazon, and
YouTube.
Rounding out the top 10 languages are C++, used by 8.896
percent of developers; Objective-C, 8.236 percent; C#, 7.348 percent;
PHP, 5.288 percent; Visual Basic, 4.962 percent; Python, 3.665 percent;
JavaScript, 2.897 percent; and Perl, 2.387 percent.
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