TIOBE announced the programming language rankings for July 2023 .
In the TIOBE index in December last year, C++ surpassed Java for the first time in history and jumped to the third place on the list. Today, C++ has approached the C language, and the gap between the two on the list is only 0.76%.
In addition, JavaScript rose to sixth place on the list this month, a record high. Matlab, Scratch, and Rust also matched their all-time highs at 10th, 12th, and 17th respectively, and COBOL re-entered the top 20 after a while, while Julia is closing in.
TIOBE July TOP 20 Programming Languages
Compared with last month, JavaScript (7→6) and Visual Basic (6→7) have swapped places in Top 10, and SQL (9→8) and PHP (8→9) have swapped places. MATLAB continues to climb, squeezing out Assembly language to rank tenth on the list.
And some other ranking changes are:
- Fortran ranked from 15 to 11
- Scratch 's rank rises from 13 to 12
- Go moves from 14 to 13
- Assembly language fell from 10th to 14th
- Delphi/Object Pascal dropped from 11 to 15
- Ruby 's rank rises from 18 to 16
- Rust's rank rises from 20 to 17
- Swift's rank rises from 19 to 18
- R rank dropped from 17 to 19
- COBOL 's ranking rises from 22 to 20
- Classic Visual Basic was squeezed out of the Top 20, falling from 16th to 22nd
Trend of TIOBE Index of TOP 10 Programming Languages (2002-2022)
21st-50th programming language ranking
Ranks 51-100 are as follows, listed in text only (alphabetical order) due to the small numerical differences between them:
4th Dimension/4D, ABC, ActionScript, Algol, Alice, APL, Bash, bc, Boo, Bourne shell, Carbon, CL (OS/400), Clipper, CLIPS, Clojure, Crystal, Elixir, Erlang, Forth, Groovy, Hack, Icon, Io, J, LabVIEW, Ladder Logic, Maple, ML, Modula-2, NATURAL, Nim, OCaml, OpenEdge ABL, PL/I, PostScript, Pure Data, Q, Racket, Raku, Ring, Smalltalk, Snap!, Solidity, SPARK, Squirrel, Tcl, VHDL, Wolfram, X10, Zig
The TIOBE Programming Community index is a measure of the popularity of programming languages, which is updated monthly. Judging is based on engineers, courses and third-party providers worldwide, including popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used for index calculations. It's worth noting that the TIOBE index doesn't represent how good a programming language is or how much code is written.
The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date, or to make a decision on which programming language to use based on the index when starting to build a new software system.
The definition of TIOBE index and detailed list information can be viewed on the official website .