December Headline: Python on its way to become TIOBE's language of the year for the fourth time
TIOBE will announce its programming language of the year 2020 next month. The programming language that got the highest increase in ratings in one year time will win this title. Python is far ahead with a positive delta of +1.90% at the moment. Runner ups are C++ (+0.71%), R (+0.60%) and Groovy (+0.69%). Chances are very low that any language will come close to Python this last month of the year. This means that Python is probably going to win the title for the fourth time, which is a record in the history of the TIOBE index. This month, there were also some interesting moves among the 5 high potential languages: Rust moved from position #25 to #21, Julia from #30 to #26, Dart from #27 to #31, Kotlin from #36 to #40 and TypeScript from #43 to #42. - Paul Jansen - CEO TIOBE Software
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. It is important to note 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.