The Top 10 in Tiobe’s index for February 2023February 11, 2023 | |
1 - Python, a rating of 15.49% | |
2 - C, 15.39% | |
3 - C++, 13.94% | |
4 - Java, 13.21% | |
5 - C#, 6.38% | |
6 - Visual Basic, 4.14% | |
7 - JavaScript, 2.52% | |
8 - SQL, 2.12% | |
10 - Assembly, 1.38% | |
11 - PHP, 1.29% | |
The Tiobe index bases language popularity on a formula assessing searches on languages in popular search engines such as Bing, Yahoo, and Google, specifically monitoring the number of courses, skilled engineers, and third-party vendors pertinent to a language. The two new booming languages in the index’s Top 20 were Rust, positioned for safety and high performance and growing at 0.16% year over year, and Scratch, meant for beginners in elementary and secondary schools and growing at 0.13% year over year. Scratch was the 18th-ranked language and Rust was 20th this month. As far as established languages, C ranked second in the index and grew 1.3% year over year, while Java ranked fourth and grew 1.07% year over year in February. Visual Basic ranked sixth and grew 1.09%. |