Bulldozer00's Blog

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 estimates of the number of skilled engineers world-wide, available training courses, and third party vendors. The results are computed (somehow) from the web’s most popular search engines; Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Baidu.

My favorite language, C++, is in third place, but quite a bit behind Java and C. I think that Objective-C took a big jump relative to last year because of the Apple iPad juggernaut. I’m bummed that my second favorite language, Erlang, didn’t even make the top 20.