{"id":122901,"date":"2018-01-08T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T08:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122901"},"modified":"2018-01-08T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T08:19:37","slug":"most-popular-programming-languages-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/122901-most-popular-programming-languages-in-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Most popular programming languages in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Java, C, and C++ remain the most popular programming languages in the world, according to the\u00a0Tiobe Index<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for January 2018.<\/p>\n

C was also awarded Language of the Year 2017 by Tiobe due to its growth of 1.69% in 2017.<\/p>\n

Runner-ups for the fastest-growing languages of 2017 were Python and Erlang, which saw year-over-year growth of 1.21% and 0.98% respectively.<\/p>\n

Tiobe stated that the growth of C could be attributed to its popularity in the manufacturing and machine industry.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0PYPL rankings<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0showed Java at the top of the list, followed by Python and PHP.<\/p>\n

The top 10 programming languages for January 2018, according to the Tiobe Index and PYPL rankings, are detailed below.<\/p>\n

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January 2018<\/div>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Tiobe Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\nChange YoY<\/strong><\/td>\nPYPL Ranking<\/strong><\/td>\nChange YoY<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Java<\/strong><\/td>\n-3.06%<\/strong><\/td>\nJava<\/strong><\/td>\n-1.4%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C<\/strong><\/td>\n+1.69%<\/strong><\/td>\nPython<\/strong><\/td>\n+4.9%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C++<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.70%<\/strong><\/td>\nPHP<\/strong><\/td>\n-1.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Python<\/strong><\/td>\n+1.21%<\/strong><\/td>\nJavaScript<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.1%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
C#<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.29%<\/strong><\/td>\nC#<\/strong><\/td>\n-1.0%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JavaScript<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.62%<\/strong><\/td>\nC++<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual Basic .NET<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.30%<\/strong><\/td>\nC<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.8%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
R<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.76%<\/strong><\/td>\nR<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.6%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
PHP<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.03%<\/strong><\/td>\nObjective-C<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.7%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Perl<\/strong><\/td>\n-0.33%<\/strong><\/td>\nSwift<\/strong><\/td>\n+0.2%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Calculating the rankings<\/h3>\n

PYPL \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. The raw data comes from Google Trends.<\/p>\n

Tiobe \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers worldwide, courses, and third-party vendors. Popular search engines are also used to calculate the ratings.<\/p>\n

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Java, C, and C++ remain the most popular programming languages in the world, according to the\u00a0Tiobe Index\u00a0for January 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":113093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[25588,25586,25587],"class_list":["post-122901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-ppyl","tag-programming-languages","tag-tiobe-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}