{"id":359839,"date":"2020-07-14T08:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=359839"},"modified":"2020-07-14T08:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:20:00","slug":"the-most-popular-programming-languages-in-the-world-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/359839-the-most-popular-programming-languages-in-the-world-17.html","title":{"rendered":"The most popular programming languages in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

C has retained its position as the most popular programming language in the world, according to the Tiobe Index for July<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Java remains second, comfortably ahead of third-placed Python.<\/p>\n

The most notable change, however, was in the ranking of statistical programming language R – which has moved to its highest-ever position of 8th.<\/p>\n

Tiobe said that while Python had previously looked like it had won the battle of statistical programming, R’s increasing popularity continues to pose a threat.<\/p>\n

It said that there are two key trends that could boost the popularity of the R language moving forward:<\/p>\n

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  1. The days of commercial statistical languages and packages such as SAS, Stata, and SPSS are over.<\/li>\n
  2. Lots of statistics and data mining need to be done to find a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    “Other interesting moves this month are Rust (from #20 to #18), Kotlin (from #30 to #27) and Delphi\/Object Pascal (from #22 to #30),” noted Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen.<\/p>\n

    PYPL rankings<\/h3>\n

    Python remains atop the PYPL rankings<\/a><\/strong> with a market share of 31.73%.<\/p>\n

    Java sits comfortably in second, although it saw a 2.7% decrease in market share compared with July 2019.<\/p>\n

    The other big losers within the top 10 were PHP – which dropped a position to C\/C++ when compared to July 2019 – and Matlab, which had TypeScript take its position within the top 10 compared to a year ago.<\/p>\n

    July 2020 rankings<\/h3>\n

    The top 10 programming languages for July 2020, according to the Tiobe Index and PYPL rankings, are detailed below.<\/p>\n

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    July 2020<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Tiobe Index<\/strong><\/td>\nChange YoY<\/strong><\/td>\nPYPL Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\nChange YoY<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    C<\/strong><\/td>\n+2.24%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nPython<\/strong><\/td>\n+3.9%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Java<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.04%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nJava<\/strong><\/td>\n-2.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Python<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.17%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nJavaScript<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    C++<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.49%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nC#<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.6%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    C#<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.88%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nC\/C++<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.1%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Visual Basic<\/strong><\/td>\n+1.03%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\nPHP<\/strong><\/td>\n-1.1%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    JavaScript<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.18%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nR<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.3%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    R<\/strong><\/td>\n+1.57%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nObjective-C<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.1%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    PHP<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.27%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nSwift<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.1%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Swift<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.31%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nTypeScript<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.2%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

    Calculating the rankings<\/h3>\n