The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication 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, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

March Headline: Objective-C's popularity still rising, Go falling behind

An interesting change can be observed this month. Objective-C scores another all time high, whereas Go drops below 1% for the first time. None of the promising languages mentioned last month made it into the top 20. Good old Fortran re-entered the chart instead, replacing Lisp/Scheme. MATLAB also made an interesting jump. It is now close to becoming a status "A" programming language.

Long term trends

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

Very Long Term History

To see the bigger picture, please find the positions of the top 10 programming languages from 4, 10 and 25 years ago in the table below.