The TIOBE index is based on the number of search results for a programming language across popular search engines, which is pretty limited.
TIOBE uses “+” programming” query and a formula to devise these ratings that change every month. You can read more about the whole process here. The jump in ratings year-on-year decides the programming language of the year title. Python overtook C# by a margin of 0.13 per cent.
The index doesn’t indicate the best or most efficient programming language, nor does it measure the amount of code written in a language across the internet. Instead, it gives us a high-level understanding of resources and pages available on the web related to them.
The organisation said that it’s trying to introduce more parameters to calculate the ratings, however the award is somehow considered “prestigious.”
The award is given to the programming language that has gained the highest increase in ratings in one year. C# was on its way to get the title for the first time in history, but Python surpassed C# in the last month.
Python started at position #3 of the TIOBE index at the beginning of 2021 and left both Java and C behind to become the number one of the TIOBE index. Python is more than a percent ahead of the rest. Java’s record of 26.49 per cent ratings in 2001 is still far away, but Python has it all to become the de facto standard programming language for many domains.
This makes the second year in a row Python has won TIOBE’s annual award.
Rust, a systems programming language that deals with memory safety flaws, is now in 26th position, ahead of MIT’s Julia, and Kotlin, a language endorsed by Google for Android app development. Rust was a stand out language in 2021, gaining backing from Facebook, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
Apple’s Swift for iOS and macOS app development jumped from 13th to 10th place, while Google’s Go inched up from 14 to 13, according to Tiobe. Kotlin moved from 40th to 29th. Google’s Dart dropped from 25th to 37th position, Julia fell from 23rd to 28th position, while Microsoft TypeScript dropped from from 42 to 49.
The top 10 languages in Tiobe’s list for January 2022 were Python, C, Java, C++,C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, Assembly Language, SQL, and Swift.
