


TIOBE January programming language rankings are released: Python retains the top spot, C and Java rank second and third
Author丨Qi Jian
[51CTO.com original manuscript] According to the latest issue of programming language published by TIOBE Ranking, Python won the title of Programming Language of the Year 2021, with the second and third places occupied by C and Java respectively.
This is the second time in a row that Python has won the TIOBE Programming Language of the Year throne. This honor represents the programming with the fastest growing ratings in the past year. language. This is also the fifth time that Python has won this award. The other four times were in 2007, 2010, 2018 and 2020.
We noticed that when the programming language rankings were announced in December, TIOBE Software CEO had predicted that the programming language of 2021 would be C#. C# was expected to win its first ever title, but Python's score dramatically surpassed C# last month.
In fact, looking back at the beginning of 2021, Python was only ranked third in the TIOBE index rankings, left behind by C and Java. But a year later, Python has jumped to the first place in the TIOBE index rankings.
Long ago, as a competitor to Perl, Python began to be the scripting job of system administrators. Today, it is also popular in fields such as data science, machine learning, etc., and Python is also suitable for areas such as web development, backend, mobile application development, and even (larger) embedded systems. The main reason why Python is adopted on a large scale is due to its simple and easy-to-use features, which greatly improves production efficiency. Judging from the current situation, Python is still very popular, with its share reaching 13.58%, and its score leading other languages by 1.86%.
In addition to Python, how are other competitive languages performing? According to the rankings, the changes in other programming languages in the past year are as follows: Swift rose from 13th to 10th, and Go rose from 13th to 10th. Ranked 14th to 13th, Rust remains unchanged at 26th, Julia drops from 23rd to 28th, Kotlin rises from 40th to 29th, Dart drops from 25th to 37th, TypeScript dropped from 42nd to 49th. So, no other language can quickly break into the top 5 or top 3 ranks right now, with the possible exception of Swift and Go.
The score change trend of the top 10 programming languages:
The ranking of the 21st-50th programming languages is as follows:
#In addition, there are languages ranked 51-100. Since the numerical differences between them are small, they are listed in text form only (in alphabetical order): Alice, AutoLISP, B4X, bc, BCPL, BlitzMax, Boo, Bourne shell, C shell, CFML, CIL, CL (OS/ 400), Clipper, CLIPS, Clojure, DCL, DiBOL, Dylan, Elm, Erlang, F#, Icon, Inform, Io, Korn shell, Lingo, LiveCode, MEL, Monkey, MOO, MQL4, Nim, NXT-G, Oberon, OCaml, Occam, OpenCL, Oz, Pike, Processing, Q, Racket, REXX, Ring, Snap!, SPARK, SPSS, X10, Xojo, Zig.
The following is the historical ranking of the top ten programming languages (taking the average position within 12 months):
From TIOBE Listing all previous "Programming Language of the Year" award winners, it can be seen that Python is the programming language with the most awards. As shown in the figure below:
##TIOBE Programming Community Index (The TIOBE Programming Community index) is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The list will be updated every Updated once a month. It should be pointed out that the TIOBE index does not represent the quality of a language. Developers can use this list to check whether their programming skills need updating, or to make a choice about a language when starting to build new software.In fact, this list can be used to review whether developers' programming skills can keep up with the trend, or whether strategic changes need to be made, and what programming languages should be mastered in a timely manner. So far, for new programmers, mainstream programming languages such as Java, Python, and C are relatively cost-effective to learn. Choosing these languages is more practical for most people.
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