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<\/p>\nTIOBE has published its latest Programming Community Index of the world’s most popular programming languages, revealing good growth for Kotlin and a continued dropoff in Java usage.<\/p>\n
It is important to note that this index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.<\/p>\n
The organisation uses search engines and online services like Google Search, Bing Search, Yahoo Search, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu to compile a monthly index of the top 20 most popular programming languages.<\/p>\n
The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers proficient in a certain language, the number of courses available for that language, and how many third-party vendors use the language.<\/p>\n
“The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system,” TIOBE explains.<\/p>\n
In November 2023, Kotlin gained 0.17% in its index rating, moving it up three positions from #18 to #15.<\/p>\n
Since November 2022, it has increased its rating by 0.68%, accounting for over half its total holding of 1.15%.<\/p>\n
The table below shows the top 20 most popular programming languages in the world, according to the TIOBE Programming Community Index.<\/p>\n
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The first wave of Kotlin popularity was in 2017 when Google announced first-class support for Kotlin on Android.<\/p>\n
“At that time, Kotlin peaked at almost 1% in the TIOBE index,” the organisation said. “That record has been beaten this month with a current rating of 1.15%.”<\/p>\n
TIOBE said that Kotlin was a direct competitor for Java and could potentially compete with the language in areas outside of Android app development.<\/p>\n
“Every Java domain has become an opportunity for Kotlin nowadays,” TIOBE said.<\/p>\n
TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said he was “pretty sure” that Kotlin would move into the top 10 most popular programming languages.<\/p>\n
“Kotlin fits in the modern programming culture of expressive languages that have a strong type system and avoid occurrences of null pointer exceptions by design,” Jansen said.<\/p>\n
“If it can become part of the ‘Big 4’ remains a question that is still to be answered.”<\/p>\n
Kotlin has played a role in the declining popularity of Java in recent years.<\/p>\n
In the latest index, Java’s rating dropped from 8.92% to 8.35%, placing it outside the top 3 for a second month.<\/p>\n
While the rating of its biggest competitor \u2014 C# \u2014 also decreased due to the rise in ratings of smaller languages, its drop was much smaller.<\/p>\n
As a result, the gap between the two languages’ ratings has narrowed from 1.21% to 0.7%. C# appears to be on the verge of surpassing Java in popularity.<\/p>\n
Java was the most popular language on the TIOBE index for several years, only conceding to C in certain months up to the start of 2020.<\/p>\n
It once held a share of over 25% of the community’s programming languages.<\/p>\n
However, it has seen a drop in popularity after Oracle introduced a paid licence model for the language in 2019.<\/p>\n
In stark contrast, Microsoft made C#\u00a0 free and open source after it was previously only available as part of its commercial Visual Studio software.<\/p>\n
Android also switched its preferred app development programming language from Java to Kotlin in May 2019 following a licensing spat with Oracle.<\/p>\n
The latest TIOBE Programming Community Index showed that Microsoft’s C# continues to gain on Oracle’s Java. But another smaller language is also making big waves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":434072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,16432,28709,13631,90044,35,10582,76608,3372,30358,32376,90048],"class_list":["post-515867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-app-development","tag-c","tag-coding","tag-coding-languages","tag-headline","tag-java","tag-kotlin","tag-oracle","tag-programming","tag-programming-languages","tag-tiobe-programming-community-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515867"}],"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=515867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515963,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515867\/revisions\/515963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}