The best programming language on the TIOBE rating 2020

TIOBE is a popular ranking of programming languages that managed to gain trust among it people. We recently held a battle of the programming languages, and now we offer you to look at more detailed statistics popular languages 2020 according to the version of TIOBE:

Source https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Let's start with the fact that all the ratings are subjective. Most analytic systems are based on search results of major search engines such as Google. But even if the same source data, different systems can produce different results.

The TIOBE index also formed on the basis of search queries that include the name of the language. This rating will not take into account the number written in code language, in contrast to the PYPL ranking GitHub. TIOBE also does not take into account the requests from Google and Chinese search engine Baidu. But this rating is still the highest priority among developers.

The TIOBE index can be used to check the relevance of their knowledge and for making strategic decisions about what language to use in a particular project.

Let's analyze the top three.

Lead C

No wonder: the C programming language led the ratings since 1985, only occasionally giving the primacy of Java.

Now C is mainly due to the Internet of things. A huge number of "smart" devices really work on the software, which is written in C. in these devices a high performance, and it provides the language.

Second place for Java

Although Java in January 2020 lead in the ranking of programming languages TIOBE, later, his position rapidly collapsed. Moreover, in November, it was around Python, dropping to third place, but then Java is still risen. The popularity of this language is the platform that provides a JVM, and a large number of tasks, among which an Android application, backend and desktop applications.

Honorary bronze Python

Experts agree that the language managed to avoid Java because of the pandemic, and development of Data Science, where about 74% of specialists according to the version of 365 Data Science work with Python:

Source https://365datascience.com/become-data-scientist-2020/

In addition, Python is simple to learn and often Google novice developers.

What about other languages?

Compared to December 2019, a slight rise is observed at C++, JavaScript, PHP, and R:

• C++ pushes up the gaming industry, microcontrollers and IoT. In addition, it is virtually the standard programming, which is often taught as a first language.
• JavaScript and PHP are still the pillars of web development, which hold almost almost all of the web application.
• The R language has grown thanks to the development of Data Science, although to Python, which is more preferable, it is far.

Source https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

A little passed the position, Visual Basic, C# and SQL:

• Visual Basic is a fairly narrow field of application, but the sunset began when C# took over its facilities — memory management .NET, the functions, type safety, etc.
• Although community C# is gradually declining. Yes, this language is still important for game development and AR/VR, but in the segment of desktop development, it is losing popularity, giving way to more powerful cross-platform languages like Java.
• The downgrade of SQL is closely correlated with the development of technology ORM.

There are also the so-called "programming Language of the year" — a kind of prize which is awarded to the language, showing the highest growth during the year:

Source https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

It is believed that by 2020 programming language according to TIOBE will be C.

Conclusion

It turns out that the current elite three is C, Java and Python. All three languages continue to study, they have a huge community and a lot of finished projects that need support. Well show yourself languages web development JavaScript, PHP, and R — Python main competitor in the field of Data Science.

Yeah, maybe in early January, the picture will change, but it is hardly too much relative to the current rating.