{"id":511546,"date":"2023-10-16T15:47:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=511546"},"modified":"2023-10-16T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T13:48:59","slug":"most-popular-programming-languages-with-a-big-tumble-for-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/511546-most-popular-programming-languages-with-a-big-tumble-for-java.html","title":{"rendered":"Most popular programming languages \u2014 with a big tumble for Java"},"content":{"rendered":"

TIOBE has published its latest Programming Community Index<\/strong><\/a>, which ranks the most popular programming languages based on data from the Internet.<\/p>\n

To compile the index, TIOBE uses search engines and online services such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu.<\/p>\n

Its data pool includes the number of skilled engineers proficient in particular languages and the number of courses available for a language.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it does not make any findings about how good a programming language is or which language has been used to write the most code.<\/p>\n

The October 2023 index showed that Python remained the most popular programming language \u2014 with a 14.82% rating, followed by C with 12.08%.<\/p>\n

However, both of these dominating languages saw a decline in their ratings from the previous month \u2014 with Python down 2.25% and C dropping 3.13%.<\/p>\n

Java also dropped out of the top 3 with a new rating of 8.92%, down 3.92 percentage points from its previous rating.<\/p>\n

It was replaced by C++, which gained 0.74% to reach a 10.67% rating.<\/p>\n

C# poised to pass Java<\/h2>\n

TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen pointed out that Java also had C# breathing down its neck.<\/p>\n

“The gap between C# and Java never has been so small,” TIOBE said.<\/p>\n

“Currently, the difference is only 1.2%, and if the trends remain this way, C# will surpass Java in about two month’s time.”<\/p>\n

The table below shows the top 20 most popular programming languages in October 2023, according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index.<\/p>\n

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Top 20 programming languages in the TIOBE Programming Community Index for October 2023<\/p><\/div>\n

Java and C# have been used in similar domains and have been competing for over two decades.<\/p>\n

Jansen ascribed Java’s plummeting popularity decline primarily to Oracle’s decision to introduce a paid licence model for the programming language after Java 8.<\/p>\n

Microsoft took the opposite approach with C# after previously only offering it as part of its commercial software Visual Studio.<\/p>\n

“Nowadays, C# is free and open source and it’s embraced by many developers,” Jansen stated.<\/p>\n

In addition to the paid model being a deterrent, the Java language definition has not changed much in the past few years.<\/p>\n

Kotlin, its fully compatible direct competitor, is also easier to use and free of charge.<\/p>\n

Java was the most popular programming language on the TIOBE index for several years, only conceding to C in certain months up to the start of 2020.<\/p>\n

At one point, it held a share of over 25% of the community’s programming languages.<\/p>\n

Its rapid decline in recent years could be partially attributed to Android switching its preferred app development programming language from Java to Kotlin in May 2019.<\/p>\n

The graph below shows how the popularity of programming languages shifted on the TIOBE Programming Community Index over the past two decades.<\/p>\n

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Now read: Microsoft publishes tutorial to install Linux<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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