TIOBE Software has presented the ranking of the most popular programming languages for August 2022. Compared to last year, Python gained 3.56% in popularity, moving from second to first with 15.42%. This is the highest indicator of popularity of this programming language for the entire time of the rating's existence. The lowest was recorded in 2003 (0.97%), when Pyhton was ranked 13th in the rankings.
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Behind Pyhton, C (14.59%) and Java (12.40%) take second and third places, respectively, despite the fact that they also gained 2.03% and 1.96% in popularity over the past year. In addition to the already mentioned trio, the top ten most popular languages are C++, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Assembly language, SQL, and PHP. Moreover, in addition to PHP and JavaScript, the popularity of other programming languages has grown.
August 2022 | August 2021 года | Programming language | Рейтинг | Change from 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 2 | Python | 15.42% | +3.56% |
2 | 1 | C | 14.59% | +2.03% |
3 | 3 | Java | 12.40% | +1.96% |
4 | 4 | C++ | 10.17% | +2.81% |
5 | 5 | C# | 5.59% | +0.45% |
6 | 6 | Visual Basic | 4.99% | +0.33% |
7 | 7 | JavaScript | 2.33% | -0.61% |
8 | 9 | Assembly language | 2.17% | +0.14% |
9 | 10 | SQL | 1.70% | +0.23% |
10 | 8 | PHP | 1.39% | -0.80% |
11 | 16 | Swift | 1.27% | +0.30% |
12 | 12 | Classic Visual Basic | 1.27% | +0.04% |
13 | 22 | Delphi/Object Pascal | 1.22% | +0.60% |
14 | 23 | Objective-C | 1.22% | +0.61% |
15 | 18 | Go | 0.98% | +0.08% |
16 | 14 | R | 0.92% | -0.13% |
17 | 17 | MATLAB | 0.90% | -0.08% |
18 | 15 | Ruby | 0.82% | -0.18% |
19 | 13 | Fortran | 0.81% | -0.32% |
20 | 20 | Perl | 0.72% | -0.06% |
In addition, it is noted that Python won the "Programming Language of the Year" nomination in 2018, 2020 and 2021. It is awarded for the fastest growth in popularity. He will probably win in 2022 as well.
The rating is divided into three categories: 1-20, 21-50 and 51-100 places. The lowest positions in the 21-50 category are Haskell, VHDL, Logo and ML. They scored less than 0.2% of the rating. There is no scatter in places for the last category, since popularity indicators are practically the same for these languages: Agilent VEE, Alice, Arc, ATLAS, BlitzMax, C shell, CFML, cg, Ch, CHILL, CL (OS/400), Clojure, CLU , DiBOL, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Fantom, Forth, Hack, Ioke, LabVIEW, Ladder Logic, Lasso, LiveCode, LPC, M4, Max/MSP, MDX, MEL, Modula-2, MOO, MQL5, Nim, Occam, PL/I, POV-Ray, Processing, Programming Without Coding Technology, Q, REBOL, Small Basic, Solidity, SPARK, Squirrel, Tcl, Uniface, Vala/Genie, VBScript, X++.