Most popular programming languages in the world
The Tiobe Index has released its programming languages ranking for November 2016, with Java at top spot.
The index ranks the popularity of programming languages, tracking the growth and decline of languages over the years.
“The Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages,” said Tiobe.
The table below shows the top 15 languages for November.
| Rank | Programming Language | Ratings | Change YoY |
| 1 | Java | 18.76% | -1.65% |
| 2 | C | 9.20% | -7.94% |
| 3 | C++ | 5.42% | -0.78% |
| 4 | C# | 3.66% | -0.66% |
| 5 | Python | 3.57% | -0.20% |
| 6 | Visual Basic .NET | 3.17% | 0.94% |
| 7 | PHP | 3.13% | -0.12% |
| 8 | JavaScript | 2.71% | 0.23% |
| 9 | Assembly language | 2.44% | 0.56% |
| 10 | Perl | 2.36% | 0.33% |
| 11 | Objective-C | 2.25% | 0.82% |
| 12 | Swift | 2.04% | 0.80% |
| 13 | Go | 2.00% | 1.80% |
| 14 | Ruby | 1.98% | -0.06% |
| 15 | MATLAB | 1.97% | 0.78% |
“The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers worldwide, courses, and third-party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings.”
“It is important to note that the index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.”
The system used to calculate the ranking is detailed here.
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