{"id":189,"date":"2010-02-27T08:15:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T22:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2010-02-27T09:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T23:16:05","slug":"tiobe-programming-community-index-feb-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"TIOBE Programming Community Index Feb 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The TIOBE Programming Community Index for Feb 2010 shows that the most popular programming languages are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Java (17% &#8211; strongly trending downwards from 26.5% in 2001 &#8211; seems governments are NOT interested in java solutions anymore)<\/li>\n<li>C (17% trending downwards from 21% in 2001)<\/li>\n<li>PHP (10% &#8211; rapidly rose from 1.5% 2001 to 5% in 2002 and since has been trending upwards &#8211; website only)<\/li>\n<li>C++ (9% and rapidly falling from its peak of 17.5% in 2003),<\/li>\n<li>VB (7% and falling from its peaks of 11.5% in 2004 an 2008 &#8211; a legacy language which will be superceded by C# in the .NET world)<\/li>\n<li>C# (5% and strongly trending upwards from 0.5% in 2001 &#8211; the main language for .NET)<\/li>\n<li>Python (4% trending up from 1% in 2003 &#8211; web scripting &#8211; fast development but slow running)<\/li>\n<li>Perl(3.6% strong down trend from 10.7% in 2004)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/?page_id=50\"><strong>Delphi<\/strong><\/a> (2.7% and trending up from 1.2% in 2002, although has hit higher peaks in between &#8211; the only RAD native compiled language for Win32 and soon to be Linux, MacOS and Win64 &#8211; fast development and fast running)<\/li>\n<li>Javascript (2.6% trending up fro 1.2% in 2002 &#8211; scripting for websites and AJAX)<\/li>\n<li>Ruby (2.4% &#8211; static after a rapid rise to 2.5% in 2007 &#8211; scripting for websites)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Objective-C\"><strong>Objective-C<\/strong><\/a> (1.8% a big rise from 0.2% a year ago &#8211; the main language for Apple Cocoa API thus mainly for MacOS and iPhone apps)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Go!_%28programming_language%29\"><strong>Go<\/strong><\/a> (1.8% also a big rise from ~zero a year ago &#8211; 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++).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiobe.com\/index.php\/content\/paperinfo\/tpci\/index.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TIOBE Programming Community Index for Feb 2010 shows that the most popular programming languages are: Java (17% &#8211; strongly trending downwards from 26.5% in 2001 &#8211; seems governments are NOT interested in java solutions anymore) C (17% trending downwards &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/?p=189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[43,42],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delphi","category-programming-languages","tag-delphi","tag-programming-languages"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desiderata.com.au\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}