C++ still shining in language popularity index

C++, currently developed as a rising star in the Tiobe shows language appeal index, continues to make fantastic strides up until now in 2023.

The language scored a boost of 5.93% this month over the exact same time in 2015, far ahead of all other languages, software quality services vendor Tiobe stated. In January, C++ won the Tiobe Programming Language of the Year classification for 2022, awarded to the language experiencing the most development in Tiobe’s index. C++ is favored for establishing applications needing capabilities of the C language but for big software application systems, Tiobe said. The founder of C++, Bjarne Stroustrup, just recently cited usages varying from aerospace to synthetic intelligence/machine finding out to biomedicine.The Tiobe index bases language popularity on a formula examining searches on languages in popular online search engine such as Bing, Yahoo, and Google, specifically keeping an eye on the variety of courses, experienced engineers, and third-party suppliers important to a language. The two new growing languages in the index’s Top 20 were Rust, placed for security and high performance and growing at 0.16% year over year, and Scratch, suggested for newbies in primary and secondary schools and growing at 0.13% year over year. Scratch was the 18th-ranked language and Rust was 20th this month. As far as recognized languages, C ranked second in the index and grew 1.3% year over year, while Java ranked 4th and grew 1.07% year over year in February. Visual Basic ranked sixth and grew 1.09%.

The Leading 10 in Tiobe’s index for February 2023

Python, with a score of 15.49%
C, 15.39%
C++, 13.94%
Java, 13.21%
C#, 6.38%
Visual Basic, 4.14%
JavaScript, 2.52%
SQL, 2.12%
Assembly, 1.38%
PHP, 1.29%

PYPL Appeal of Programs Language Index

The rival PYPL Popularity of Programs Language Index, which examines how frequently language tutorials are searched in Google, has the following as its top 10 for this month: