TIOBE Index for July 2019
July Headline: Perl is one of the victims of Python's hype
Python's continuous rise in popularity comes at the expense of the decline of popularity of other programming languages. One of these programming languages is R, but Perl has been beaten even more. Perl is currently at position 19 of the TIOBE index, which is an all-time low for Perl. Note that Perl was at position #3 in 2005 with a rating of more than 10%. The unconventional syntax of Perl and its unclear future (Perl 5 versus Perl 6) harmed the language a lot. Perl 6 has entered the top 100 at position #93 this month, but this is probably too late to become a major player again.
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 the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. It is important to note that the TIOBE 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 TIOBE index can be found here.
Jul 2019 Jul 2018 Change Programming Language Ratings Change
1 1 Java 15.058% -1.08%
2 2 C 14.211% -0.45%
3 4 change Python 9.260% +2.90%
4 3 change C++ 6.705% -0.91%
5 6 change C# 4.365% +0.57%
6 5 change Visual Basic .NET 4.208% -0.04%
7 8 change JavaScript 2.304% -0.53%
8 7 change PHP 2.167% -0.67%
9 9 SQL 1.977% -0.36%
10 10 Objective-C 1.686% +0.23%
11 12 change Ruby 1.636% +0.43%
12 13 change Assembly language 1.390% +0.24%
13 11 change Swift 1.121% -0.29%
14 15 change MATLAB 1.078% -0.05%
15 81 change Groovy 1.070% +0.96%
16 18 change Go 1.016% +0.05%
17 19 change Visual Basic 1.009% +0.12%
18 16 change Delphi/Object Pascal 0.950% -0.16%
19 17 change Perl 0.918% -0.18%
20 14 change R 0.837% -0.31%