TIOBE Programming Community Index for September 2005

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming languages. It’s updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The first 8 languages you can in the table below:

Position Programming Language Ratings (Ratings)
1 Java 22.442% +6.55%
2 C 19.160% +2.04%
3 C++ 11.168% -3.75%
4 Perl 9.274% +0.31%
5 PHP 8.895% +0.66%
6 (Visual) Basic 6.509% -5.14%
7 C# 3.290% +1.66%
8 Python 3.032% -2.57%

As you can see Java is on the top! It is not bad reason to start use it πŸ™‚ You can find the whole top here.

Published by

Michael Stepanov

Site owner and admin :)

3 thoughts on “TIOBE Programming Community Index for September 2005”

  1. Just a small observation: one shouldn’t learn the currently most popular programming language, but one which WILL be popular in the future. Learning takes time you know… πŸ™‚

  2. Probably, you are right but the life is very short and somethimes is better to get benefit benefit than wait when the your favourite language will be on the top IMHO πŸ™‚

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *