{"id":243476,"date":"2018-01-07T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T13:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=243476"},"modified":"2018-01-07T15:21:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T13:21:06","slug":"the-most-popular-programming-languages-in-the-world-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/243476-the-most-popular-programming-languages-in-the-world-6.html","title":{"rendered":"The most popular programming languages in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Java, C, and C++ remain the most popular programming languages in the world, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiobe.com\/tiobe-index\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tiobe Index<\/strong><\/a> for January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>C was also awarded Language of the Year 2017 by Tiobe due to its growth of 1.69% in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Runner-ups for the fastest-growing languages of 2017 were Python and Erlang, which saw year-over-year growth of 1.21% and 0.98% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Tiobe stated that the growth of C could be attributed to its popularity in the manufacturing and machine industry.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pypl.github.io\/PYPL.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>PYPL rankings<\/strong><\/a> showed Java at the top of the list, followed by Python and PHP.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 programming languages for January 2018, according to the Tiobe Index and PYPL rankings, are detailed below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"4\">\n<div align=\"center\">January 2018<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"30%\"><strong>Tiobe Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"20%\"><strong>Change YoY<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"30%\"><strong>PYPL Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"20%\"><strong>Change YoY<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Java<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-3.06%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Java<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-1.4%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>C<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #00a000;\"><strong>+1.69%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Python<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #00a000;\"><strong>+4.9%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>C++<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-0.70%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>PHP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-1.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Python<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #00a000;\"><strong>+1.21%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>JavaScript<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #00a000;\"><strong>+0.1%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>C#<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-0.29%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>C#<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-1.0%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>JavaScript<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #00a000;\"><strong>+0.62%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>C++<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-0.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Visual Basic .NET<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #00a000;\"><strong>+0.30%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>C<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-0.8%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>R<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #00a000;\"><strong>+0.76%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>R<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #00a000;\"><strong>+0.6%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>PHP<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-0.03%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Objective-C<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-0.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Perl<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #a00000;\"><strong>-0.33%<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Swift<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"color: #00a000;\"><strong>+0.2%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Calculating the rankings<\/h3>\n<p><strong>PYPL \u2013<\/strong> The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. The raw data comes from Google Trends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tiobe \u2013<\/strong> The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers worldwide, courses, and third-party vendors. 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