June Headline: Visual Basic 2005 is gaining momentum
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 world-wide availability of skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo! are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TPC index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TPC index can be found here.
| Position June 2006 |
Position June 2005 |
Delta in Position |
Programming Language | Ratings June 2006 |
Delta June 2005 |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |  |
Java | 21.128% | +2.56% | A |
| 2 | 1 |  |
C | 18.253% | -1.11% | A |
| 3 | 4 | |
C++ | 10.670% | +0.95% | A |
| 4 | 6 | |
(Visual) Basic | 10.185% | +3.41% | A |
| 5 | 5 |  |
PHP | 9.593% | +1.62% | A |
| 6 | 3 | |
Perl | 6.002% | -4.37% | A |
| 7 | 8 | |
Python | 3.464% | +0.66% | A |
| 8 | 9 | |
C# | 3.238% | +0.45% | A |
| 9 | 7 | |
Delphi | 2.393% | -0.50% | A |
| 10 | 10 | |
JavaScript | 1.456% | +0.07% | A |
| 11 | 14 | |
SAS | 1.373% | +0.28% | A |
| 12 | 24 | 12 * |
Visual FoxPro | 1.036% | +0.66% | A |
| 13 | 11 | |
PL/SQL | 0.959% | -0.37% | A |
| 14 | 12 | |
COBOL | 0.650% | -0.73% | B |
| 15 | 15 | |
Lisp/Scheme | 0.644% | -0.22% | A-- |
| 16 | 18 | |
Ada | 0.536% | -0.14% | B |
| 17 | 19 | |
Pascal | 0.486% | +0.00% | B |
| 18 | 26 | 8 * |
D | 0.485% | +0.13% | B |
| 19 | 23 | |
Ruby | 0.479% | +0.10% | B |
| 20 | 31 | 11 * |
ColdFusion | 0.453% | +0.18% | B |
Long term trends
The long term trends for the first 10 programming languages are depicted in the line diagram below.
Other programming languages
On request, the complete top 50 of programming languages is listed below. This overview is published unofficially, because it could be the case that we missed a language. If you have the impression there is a programming language lacking, please notify us at tpci@tiobe.com.
| Position | Programming Language | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | VB.NET | 0.442% |
| 22 | ABAP | 0.435% |
| 23 | Fortran | 0.431% |
| 24 | dBASE | 0.414% |
| 25 | Awk | 0.363% |
| 26 | IDL | 0.344% |
| 27 | MATLAB | 0.328% |
| 28 | Prolog | 0.305% |
| 29 | T-SQL | 0.288% |
| 30 | Bash | 0.288% |
| 31 | ActionScript | 0.246% |
| 32 | Logo | 0.233% |
| 33 | LabView | 0.184% |
| 34 | RPG | 0.172% |
| 35 | S-Lang | 0.168% |
| 36 | CL | 0.163% |
| 37 | REXX | 0.158% |
| 38 | Forth | 0.141% |
| 39 | Icon | 0.134% |
| 40 | Smalltalk | 0.133% |
| 41 | Tcl/Tk | 0.132% |
| 42 | VBScript | 0.109% |
| 43 | csh | 0.097% |
| 44 | Postscript | 0.096% |
| 45 | Lingo | 0.091% |
| 46 | OCaml | 0.090% |
| 47 | ML | 0.087% |
| 48 | Objective-C | 0.087% |
| 49 | Bourne Shell | 0.085% |
| 50 | Maple | 0.077% |
The Next 50 Programming Languages
The following list of languages denotes #51 till #100. Since the differences are relatively small between these languages, they are only listed (in alphabetical order).
- ABC, Alpha, APL, AppleScript, Beta, Boo, cg, Ch, Clean, Clipper, cT, Curl, dc, Dylan, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria, Felix, Haskell, Inform, Io, J#, Limbo, LotusScript, Lua, MAD, Magic, Mathematica, Modula-2, Moto, MUMPS, Natural, Oberon, Occam, OPL, Oz, Pike, PILOT, PL/1, Powerbuilder, Progress, Q, REALBasic, Scala, SIGNAL, Simula, VHDL, XSLT, and Yorick.
