The Top 20 programming languages - Java is still King
Popularity of Languages Development - September 2008
TIOBE yesterday presented the 2008 ranking, where a surprise to anyone without Java remains the most widely used programming language and popular on the globe.
The index is updated monthly and is based on the number of skilled engineers worldwide, training and solution vendors. The ranking has also been calculated based on search services from Google, MSN, Yahoo! and YouTube.
The most curious of the study:
- Delphi has returned to Top 10
- Ruby continues to fall to 11th place
- C + + gained more popularity than Visual Basic and PHP
This index can be used to find out if your knowledge and skills are up to date or to decide which language to develop the next project.
| Position Sep 2008 |
Position Sep 2007 |
Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Sep 2008 |
Delta Sep 2007 |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  |
Java  |
20,715% | -0.99% | A |
| 2 | 2 | |
C |
15,379% | +0.47% | A |
| 3 | 5 |
|
C + + |
10,716% | +0.78% | A |
| 4 | 3 |  |
(Visual) Basic |
10,490% | -0.26% | A |
| 5 | 4 | |
PHP |
9243% | -0.96% | A |
| 6 | 8 |
|
Python |
5012% | +1.99% | A |
| 7 | 6 | |
Perl |
4841% | -0.58% | A |
| 8 | 7 | |
C # |
4334% | +0.75% | A |
| 9 | 9 | |
JavaScript |
3130% | +0.41% | A |
| 10 | 14 |
|
Delphi |
3055% | +1.83% | A |
| 11 | 10 | |
Ruby |
2762% | +0.70% | A |
| 12 | 13 | |
D |
1265% | -0.11% | A |
| 13 | 11 |
|
PL / SQL |
0.700% | -1.16% | Aâ € " |
| 14 | 12 |
|
SAS |
0.640% | -0.76% | B |
| 15 | 23 |
|
ActionScript |
0.472% | +0.07% | B |
| 16 | 16 | |
Lisp / Scheme |
0.419% | -0.21% | B |
| 17 | 18 | |
Lua |
0.415% | -0.16% | B |
| 18 | 22 |
|
Pascal |
0.400% | -0.03% | B |
| 19 | -- |
|
PowerShell |
0.384% | 0.00% | B |
| 20 | 17 |
|
COBOL |
0.360% | -0.27% | B |
Via | Hurricanes
Popularity: 3%
