Programming Ranking

TIOBE Programming Community Index for June 2009

June Headline: JavaScript has never been so popular

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 number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe 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.

Position Jun 2009	Position Jun 2008	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Jun 2009	Delta Jun 2008	Status
1	1		Java	20.147%	-0.74%	A
2	2		C	16.779%	+1.27%	A
3	3		C++	10.594%	-0.21%	A
4	4		PHP	9.675%	-0.53%	A
5	5		(Visual) Basic	7.943%	-1.84%	A
6	7		Python	4.756%	-0.14%	A
7	8		C#	4.536%	+0.48%	A
8	9		JavaScript	4.021%	+1.09%	A
9	6		Perl	3.909%	-1.64%	A
10	10		Ruby	2.629%	-0.01%	A
11	11		Delphi	2.182%	+0.16%	A
12	14		PL/SQL	0.879%	+0.12%	A
13	26		RPG (OS/400)	0.778%	+0.53%	A--
14	13		SAS	0.759%	-0.16%	A
15	15		Pascal	0.759%	+0.16%	A
16	27		ABAP	0.726%	+0.49%	A--
17	12		D	0.620%	-0.83%	A--
18	16		Lisp/Scheme	0.607%	+0.17%	B
19	19		Lua	0.557%	+0.19%	B
20	23		MATLAB	0.527%	+0.26%	B