As a developer, one of the main concerns is to stay relevant in the field. Nobody needs a developer with mastery over a dead or unpopular programming language.
TIOBE Index
The TIOBE (stands for The Importance Of Being Earnest) Index by the TIOBE Software company ranks the most popular programming languages on their popularity.
According to the index page,
The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
That’s the thing that makes TIOBE one of the most cited indexes when it comes to gauging the top programming languages. Best is subjective but what counts is the the actual number of developers and the work being done in a programming language by companies and vendors.
You can read more about the way they rank programming languages here.
These are the top ten programming languages as ranked on the index:
Java, C and C++ retain their top spots as the most popular languages used in July 2016. Whats surprising is that Assembly language, the very basic programming language you can find, has jumped up to the 10th spot on the list.
The reasons for rising popularity of the Assembly language can be described as the increase in IoT devices which require specific instructions which cannot be found in high level languages. The assembly code lets you go into absolute small level of instructions.
Survival of the Fittest
This index helps up and coming programmers and those who have been off the grid for some time to keep track of the popularity of various languages and adapt accordingly so they can avoid being left behind. The market changes quickly so indexes like these are what help you watch the shifts on a regular basis.
via TIOBE
but we cant forget Delphi.
Java is at the top ?
^ my mistake :)
COPY-PASTE is the language to build websites like PropPakistani
I am going to start Java very soon. I am working in PHP.
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How much he is earning…..Please don’t involve freelancing here!
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You can’t work in WordPress without full command on PHP and mysql
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Why are going for java? Is there is any problm in php?
love c#
PHP, JavaScript and Perl are not programming languages, should have made the title, programming and scripting languages.
All scripting languages are programming languages.
Languages are not classed as script or not – it entirely depends on the execution environment.
If the environment is one that is interpreted, this is commonly referred to as a scripting environment.(just copy paste from stackoverflow)
There’s a fine line between interpretation and compilation.
Well since
– Facebook has used a PHP -> C++ compiler internally (described in their public developer talks)
– Javascript can be compiled using V8 engine (used internally in node.js) to a binary “snapshot” form,
– people write compilers from other languages to Javascript and soon there will be WebAssembly everywhere, and
– perl has shipped with the B module since version 5.005 (type “perldoc B” to see what it does),
then what is your fine line?
and I dispute that interpreting means scripting because early virtual machines like Java did nothing more than interpret Java bytecodes, they did not have good native support until Java 1.2 even.
If they’re not programming language, what do you write in them? Sindhi food recipes?
What do you write in “scripts” that makes them different from “programs”?
Top Programming Languages of 2016 by IEEE.org Posted on 26 Jul, 2016.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2016-top-programming-languages
C is number 1 and java is at 2nd position.
Also one major difference is at position 5 where R is placed by IEEE.org which is completely missing in the article ranking.
List of ranking of all programming languages by IEEE.org.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programming-languages-2016
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Guys please guide me, My son is 14 year old learning in Class 8, I want my son to learn programming language due to seen his interest. Which language I should prefer and how to start to learn basics. I am basically a hardware engineer.
Let him learn C and C++, then he will be able to move quickly between various development stacks.
Shabash… What a idea… :S
I will prefer a scripting language like Javascript or PHP for beginners.
Consider C language. Im 15 and i know java, c, xml, html, css, and a bit of assembly as well…
Python is best for beginners in my opinion.
I’m 12 and I know 1/2 of python language.
I am also an android hacker(in a good way).
Please guide me how he can learn any web site or CBT ?