TIOBE Programming Community Index for August 2013

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TIOBE Programming Community Index for August 2013

August Headline: Search engine changes affect C and Objective-C most

In order to professionalize the TIOBE index further, we have added 16 extra search engines as of this month. Most of them are from the US and China, but there are also Japanese and even a British and Brazilian website in use now. An overview of all search engines used can be found on the TIOBE index definition page. The new search engines will count only for a marginal fraction of the total. Next month we will complete the number search engines together with an explanation why these are chosen.

C and Objective-C are the biggest victims of adding the 16 new search engines. They go down -1.65% and -2.17% respectively. Winners are Go (from 42 to 26), LabVIEW (from 100 to 49) and Openedge ABL (from 129 to 57).

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 as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in 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.

Position Aug 2013	Position Aug 2012	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Aug 2013	Delta  Aug 2012	Status
1	2		Java	15.978%	-0.37%	A
2	1		C	15.974%	-2.96%	A
3	4		C++	9.371%	+0.04%	A
4	3		Objective-C	8.082%	-1.46%	A
5	6		PHP	6.694%	+1.17%	A
6	5		C#	6.117%	-0.47%	A
7	7		(Visual) Basic	3.873%	-1.46%	A
8	8		Python	3.603%	-0.27%	A
9	11		JavaScript	2.093%	+0.73%	A
10	10		Ruby	2.067%	+0.38%	A
11	9		Perl	2.041%	-0.23%	A
12	15		Transact-SQL	1.393%	+0.54%	A
13	14		Visual Basic .NET	1.320%	+0.44%	A
14	12		Delphi/Object Pascal	0.918%	-0.09%	A--
15	20		MATLAB	0.841%	+0.31%	A--
16	13		Lisp	0.752%	-0.22%	A
17	19		PL/SQL	0.751%	+0.14%	A
18	16		Pascal	0.620%	-0.17%	A-
19	23		Assembly	0.616%	+0.11%	B
20	22		SAS	0.580%	+0.06%	B