In July 2021, the TIOBE Index celebrates its 20th anniversary. In July 2001 he first published a rating of the most widely used programming languages. Java dominated this arrangement for 20 years, followed by C and C++. Python was at the time in seventh place, far behind.
In fact, we find almost the same languages in the top seven, and even an identical order compared to last year. As in 2020, despite a decline of 4.83%, C still ranks first. Then we find Java (not to be confused with JavaScript) in second place, with a huge drop of 3.93%.
This is where the arrangement can be changed very quickly. In fact, if Python retains its third position, the use of this language increases by about 2%. This is the largest increase in the top 7.
Python aims for the top, PHP rises and TypeScript takes off
Then we find C++, C# and Visual Basic respectively, all of which are broken except for C++ which continues to follow Python closely with a nice increment of 1.80%. In seventh place, JavaScript is struggling to raise the rating with an increase of 0.23%. As you may have noticed, PHP used by giants like Facebook or WordPress, does not appear in the top 7. For the simple reason that it ranks eighth. It’s rather promising for this still popular language which took ninth place in 2020.
In conclusion, Python has gained traction in recent months and can quickly consider taking the lead in this ranking. Python is particularly popular in the scientific world, and it has many libraries optimized for numeric computation. This language is also a good entry point into the world of web development for beginners in order to fully understand the logic of programming.
We can also notice an interesting change on the side of TypeScript, which goes from the 45th position to the 37th position. TypeScript is a comprehensive grammatical set of JavaScript created by Microsoft. Its goal is to improve and secure the production of JavaScript code. Many developers who are comfortable with JavaScript are gradually moving to TypeScript.
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