We are half way 2011 and there is one language that stands out if we look at the percentage of gained market shared in one year. That is Objective-C with +2.68%. Runner up is Lua with "only" +1.04%. So it is very likely that Objective-C will become TIOBE's programming language of the year 2011. This award will be given in January 2012.
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
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.
Top 10 programming languages from 5, 15 and 25 years ago
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.
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 5 years.
Source:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/conte...pci/index.html
TIOBE Programming Community Index for July 2011
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