specialising in clinical database solutions for Australian hospitals
Posts tagged programming languages
TIOBE Programming Community Index Feb 2010
Feb 27th
The TIOBE Programming Community Index for Feb 2010 shows that the most popular programming languages are:
- Java (17% – strongly trending downwards from 26.5% in 2001 – seems governments are NOT interested in java solutions anymore)
- C (17% trending downwards from 21% in 2001)
- PHP (10% – rapidly rose from 1.5% 2001 to 5% in 2002 and since has been trending upwards – website only)
- C++ (9% and rapidly falling from its peak of 17.5% in 2003),
- VB (7% and falling from its peaks of 11.5% in 2004 an 2008 – a legacy language which will be superceded by C# in the .NET world)
- C# (5% and strongly trending upwards from 0.5% in 2001 – the main language for .NET)
- Python (4% trending up from 1% in 2003 – web scripting – fast development but slow running)
- Perl(3.6% strong down trend from 10.7% in 2004)
- Delphi (2.7% and trending up from 1.2% in 2002, although has hit higher peaks in between – the only RAD native compiled language for Win32 and soon to be Linux, MacOS and Win64 – fast development and fast running)
- Javascript (2.6% trending up fro 1.2% in 2002 – scripting for websites and AJAX)
- Ruby (2.4% – static after a rapid rise to 2.5% in 2007 – scripting for websites)
- Objective-C (1.8% a big rise from 0.2% a year ago – the main language for Apple Cocoa API thus mainly for MacOS and iPhone apps)
- Go (1.8% also a big rise from ~zero a year ago – introduced in 2003 as an multi-threaded agent-based language and taken over by Google in late 2009 as an experimental language combining the fast development of Python with the safety and fast running of C++).
See here
Recent Comments