{"id":152037,"date":"2016-01-14T09:55:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T07:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=152037"},"modified":"2016-01-14T09:57:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T07:57:03","slug":"top-10-programming-languages-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/152037-top-10-programming-languages-for-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 programming languages for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiobe.com\/index.php\/content\/paperinfo\/tpci\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tiobe Index<\/a><\/strong> for January 2016 shows that Java is the top programming language.<\/p>\n<p>The Index is an indicator of\u00a0the popularity of programming languages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers worldwide, courses, and third party vendors,&#8221; said Tiobe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The table below details the top 10 languages, according to Tiobe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #002440; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" colspan=\"2\" bgcolor=\"#003366\">\n<div align=\"center\">Top programming languages &#8211; January 2016<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"53%\"><strong>Language<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"47%\"><strong>Rating<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Java<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>21.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>C<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>C++<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>6.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>C#<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Python<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>3.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>PHP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Visial Basic .NET<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>JavaScript<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Assembly language<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Ruby<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on programming<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/150301-radical-new-programming-campus-in-south-africa-taking-shape.html\">Radical new programming campus in South Africa taking shape<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/148431-is-html-really-a-programming-language.html\">Is HTML really a programming language?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tiobe Index shows the top programming languages for January 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,10582,32376],"class_list":["post-152037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-headline","tag-java","tag-programming-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152045,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152037\/revisions\/152045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}