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TIOBE Programming Community Index for June 2013

June Headline: JavaScript back in the top 10

This month, JavaScript re-entered the top 10 of the TIOBE index. It is still a bit of a miracle why this ubiquitous language is not yet part of the top 5. JavaScript is the glue of client-side web page programming nowadays. But JavaScript is currently expanding its application domain. Node.js has made JavaScript a server-side programming language and the amount of Javascript based games (mostly browser based) is increasing.

But there are also some threats for JavaScript. The JavaScript language is generally regarded as a programming language in which it is easy to make mistakes. It is interpreted, so most errors show up only at run-time. That's why Google designed Dart (currently at position 80) as JavaScript's successor. But also other programming languages were designed to generate JavaScript code instead of writing it manually. Examples of this are CoffeeScript (position 139) and TypeScript (position 207).

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. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about thebest 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 foundhere.

Position
Jun 2013Position
Jun 2012Delta in PositionProgramming LanguageRatings
Jun 2013Delta
Jun 2012Status11C17.809%+0.08%  A22Java16.656%+0.39%  A34Objective-C10.356%+1.26%  A43C++8.819%-0.54%  A57PHP5.987%+0.70%  A65C#5.783%-1.24%  A76(Visual) Basic4.348%-1.70%  A88Python4.183%+0.33%  A99Perl2.273%+0.05%  A1011JavaScript1.654%+0.18%  A1110Ruby1.479%-0.20%  A1212Visual Basic .NET1.067%-0.15%  A1317Transact-SQL0.913%+0.21%  A1414Lisp0.879%-0.11%  A1516Pascal0.779%-0.07%  A1621Bash0.711%+0.09%  A1719PL/SQL0.657%+0.02%  A--1813Delphi/Object Pascal0.602%-0.55%  A--1918Ada0.575%-0.11%  B2022MATLAB0.563%0.00%  B

Long term trends

The long term trends for the top 10 programming languages can be found in the line diagram below.

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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. If you have the impression there is a programming language lacking, please notify us [e-mail].

PositionProgramming LanguageRatings21SAS0.543%22Lua0.537%23Assembly0.500%24R0.480%25D0.474%26COBOL0.441%27ABAP0.436%28Fortran0.407%29Scheme0.381%30Haskell0.322%31Erlang0.317%32Prolog0.313%33Scratch0.308%34Scala0.290%35Logo0.270%36Groovy0.269%37NXT-G0.235%38Smalltalk0.231%39APL0.222%40Forth0.212%41ML0.204%42ActionScript0.198%43F#0.166%44JScript.NET0.153%45Awk0.153%46Tcl0.144%47ATLAS0.143%48RPG (OS/400)0.140%49PL/I0.137%50Algol0.135%

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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 alphabetical order).

• (Visual) FoxPro, ABC, Alice, Apex, Applescript, AutoLISP, bc, C shell, CFML, CL (OS/400), Clojure, Common Lisp, Dart, Dylan, ECMAScript, Eiffel, Emacs Lisp, Go, Gosu, Heron, Icon, IDL, Informix-4GL, J, JavaFX Script, LabVIEW, Ladder Logic, Lasso, LPC, Mathematica, MS-DOS batch, MUMPS, NATURAL, Oberon, OCaml, Occam, OpenCL, Oz, PowerShell, Q, REXX, S, sed, Simulink, Smarty, SPARK, VBScript, VHDL, xBase, XSLT

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Very Long Term History

To see the bigger picture, please find the positions of the top 10 programming languages from 5, 15 and 25 years ago in the table below.

Programming LanguagePosition
June 2013Position
June 2008Position
June 1998Position
June 1988C1211Java213-Objective-C342--C++4324PHP54--C#68--(Visual) Basic7557Python8730-Perl967-JavaScript10917-Lisp1416192Ada1917103

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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.

YearWinner2012Objective-C2011Objective-C2010Python2009Go2008C2007Python2006Ruby2005Java2004PHP2003C++

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Categories of Programming Languages

In the tables below some long term trends are shown about categories of languages. Object-oriented statically typed languages have been most popular for more than 5years now.

CategoryRatings June 2013Delta June 2012Object-Oriented Languages58.5%+1.0%Procedural Languages36.6%-0.4%Functional Languages3.2%-0.8%Logical Languages1.8%+0.1%

CategoryRatings June 2013Delta June 2012Statically Typed Languages70.3%-1.0%Dynamically Typed Languages29.7%+1.0%