{"id":381460,"date":"2021-01-04T14:47:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=381460"},"modified":"2021-01-04T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T12:48:32","slug":"the-most-popular-programming-languages-in-the-world-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/381460-the-most-popular-programming-languages-in-the-world-20.html","title":{"rendered":"The most popular programming languages in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

C remains the most popular programming language in the world, according to the Tiobe Index.<\/p>\n

It boasts 17.38% of market share, while its nearest competitors Java and Python have 11.96% and 11.72% market share respectively.<\/p>\n

This time last year, Java was leading the index; however, it is now threatened for second by the 2020 programming language of the year Python.<\/p>\n

The title is awarded to the programming language that has gained the most popularity in one year, and Python won this by achieving 2.01% growth over the course of 2020.<\/p>\n

Other competitors for the title included C++ (1.99%) Other winners are C (+1.61%), Groovy (+1.23%) and R (+1.10%).<\/p>\n

“It has been stated before: Python is popping up everywhere,” said Tiobe.<\/p>\n

“It started as a competitor of Perl to write scripts for system administrators a long time ago. Nowadays it is the favourite language in fields such as data science and machine learning, but it is also used for web development and back-end programming and growing into the mobile application domain and even in (larger) embedded systems.”<\/p>\n

PYPL rankings<\/h3>\n

The PYPL index found that Python is the programming language for which tutorials were searched most often on Google.<\/p>\n

Python boasts 30.44% of all tutorial searches and is followed by Java and JavaScript.<\/p>\n

The biggest year-on-year growth in the top 10 was shared by Python and Objective-C, which increased in popularity by 1.2%.<\/p>\n

Java was the biggest loser, decreasing in popularity by 2%.<\/p>\n

January 2021 rankings<\/h3>\n

The top 10 programming languages for January 2021, according to the Tiobe Index and PYPL rankings, are detailed below.<\/p>\n

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January 2021<\/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+1.61%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nPython<\/strong><\/td>\n+1.2%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Java<\/strong><\/td>\n-4.93%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nJava<\/strong><\/td>\n-2.0%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Python<\/strong><\/td>\n+2.01%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nJavascript<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.3%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C++<\/strong><\/td>\n+1.99%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nC#<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C#<\/strong><\/td>\n-1.40%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nC\/C++<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.3%<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual Basic<\/strong><\/td>\n-1.44%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nPHP <\/strong><\/td>\n-0.2%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JavaScript<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.25%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nR<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.1%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PHP<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.41%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nObjective-C<\/strong><\/td>\n+1.2%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R<\/strong><\/td>\n+1.10%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nSwift<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.3%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Groovy<\/strong><\/td>\n+1.23%<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\nMatlab<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.0%<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

Calculating the rankings<\/h3>\n