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TIOBE Index for October 2015
October Headline: Ruby replaces Objective-C in TIOBE index top 10
It was a matter of time. Soon after Apple announced to switch from Objective-C to Swift, Objective-C went into free fall. This month Objective-C dropped out of the TIOBE index top 10. Scripting language Ruby exploited this drop and entered the top 10 again. Ruby's small revival is a bit surprising. The language was a genuine hype between 2006 and 2008. Rubyists were shouting all over the Internet that Ruby and Rails were the best gift to mankind. It even became TIOBE's language of the year 2006. The hype stopped quite abruptly when Twitter announced to shift from Ruby to Scala in 2009. The hotness was over. Scala was the new thing. Without evangelists, Ruby dropped out of the top 10 and had to reinvent itself. The Ruby community stopped shouting, and started to work hard to overcome all criticism. Now it is slowly picking up again.
The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such asGoogle, 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 languagein which most lines of code have been written.
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. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.
Oct 2015 | Oct 2014 | Change | Programming Language | Ratings | Change |
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1 | 2 | ![]() | Java | 19.543% | +6.04% |
2 | 1 | ![]() | C | 16.190% | -1.47% |
3 | 4 | ![]() | C++ | 5.749% | +0.88% |
4 | 5 | ![]() | C# | 4.825% | +0.08% |
5 | 8 | ![]() | Python | 4.512% | +2.18% |
6 | 7 | ![]() | PHP | 2.561% | -0.38% |
7 | 13 | ![]() | Visual Basic .NET | 2.462% | +0.71% |
8 | 12 | ![]() | JavaScript | 2.292% | +0.52% |
9 | 9 | Perl | 2.247% | +0.13% | |
10 | 16 | ![]() | Ruby | 1.825% | +0.70% |
11 | 11 | Delphi/Object Pascal | 1.637% | -0.18% | |
12 | 31 | ![]() | Assembly language | 1.573% | +1.16% |
13 | 14 | ![]() | Visual Basic | 1.515% | -0.05% |
14 | 3 | ![]() | Objective-C | 1.419% | -8.68% |
15 | 19 | ![]() | Swift | 1.277% | +0.52% |
16 | 20 | ![]() | Pascal | 1.194% | +0.47% |
17 | 27 | ![]() | MATLAB | 1.159% | +0.55% |
18 | 23 | ![]() | PL/SQL | 1.067% | +0.39% |
19 | 29 | ![]() | OpenEdge ABL | 1.040% | +0.53% |
20 | 15 | ![]() | R | 0.991% | -0.53% |
Other programming languages
The complete top 50 of programming languages is listed below. This overview is published unofficially, because it could be the case that we missed a language. Ifyou have the impression there is a programming language lacking, please notify us at tpci@tiobe.com. Please also check the overview of all programming languages that we monitor.
Position | Programming Language | Ratings |
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21 | COBOL | 0.909% |
22 | Fortran | 0.841% |
23 | SAS | 0.835% |
24 | Scala | 0.781% |
25 | D | 0.780% |
26 | ABAP | 0.749% |
27 | Ada | 0.708% |
28 | Lisp | 0.697% |
29 | Lua | 0.692% |
30 | Dart | 0.687% |
31 | Scratch | 0.642% |
32 | Groovy | 0.583% |
33 | Logo | 0.558% |
34 | Transact-SQL | 0.505% |
35 | F# | 0.488% |
36 | Prolog | 0.469% |
37 | Erlang | 0.393% |
38 | RPG (OS/400) | 0.349% |
39 | LabVIEW | 0.333% |
40 | Haskell | 0.290% |
41 | Scheme | 0.286% |
42 | Ladder Logic | 0.271% |
43 | ActionScript | 0.244% |
44 | Awk | 0.232% |
45 | ML | 0.218% |
46 | Alice | 0.210% |
47 | Mathematica | 0.200% |
48 | Forth | 0.196% |
49 | Rust | 0.195% |
50 | Clojure | 0.190% |
The Next 50 Programming Languages
The following list of languages denotes #51 to #100. Since the differences are relatively small, the programming languages are only listed (in alphabeticalorder).
- (Visual) FoxPro, 4th Dimension/4D, Apex, APL, ATLAS, Avenue, Bash, bc, Bourne shell, CL (OS/400), Clean, Clipper, Common Lisp, cT, Eiffel, Emacs Lisp, Factor, Go, Hack, Icon, IDL, Inform, J, J#, Julia, Korn shell, MAD, Magic, MQL4, MUMPS, NATURAL, NXT-G, OpenCL, Paradox, PL/I, PowerShell, Programming Without Coding Technology, Pure Data, Q, S, sed, Smalltalk, Stata, Tcl, thinBasic, VBScript, Verilog, VHDL, X10, Z shell
This Month's Changes in the Index
This month the following changes have been made to the definition of the index:
- There are lots of mails that still need to be processed. As soon as there is more time available your mail will be answered. Please be patient.
Very Long Term History
To see the bigger picture, please find the positions of the top 10 programming languages of many years back. Please note that these are average positions for a period of 12 months.
Programming Language | 2015 | 2010 | 2005 | 2000 | 1995 | 1990 | 1985 |
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Java | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 31 | - | - |
C | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
C++ | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 |
C# | 4 | 5 | 7 | 9 | - | - | - |
Objective-C | 5 | 10 | 43 | - | - | - | - |
Python | 6 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 15 | - | - |
PHP | 7 | 4 | 5 | 21 | - | - | - |
JavaScript | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | - | - | - |
Visual Basic .NET | 9 | 191 | - | - | - | - | - |
Perl | 10 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 17 | - |
Pascal | 17 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 3 | 10 | 6 |
Fortran | 26 | 25 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 5 |
Lisp | 27 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
Ada | 29 | 23 | 17 | 19 | 4 | 7 | 3 |
Programming Language Hall of Fame
The hall of fame listing all "Programming Language of the Year" award winners is shown below. The award is given to the programming language that has the highest rise in ratings in a year.
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