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Surprisingly, the old-school language C seems to be the fastest grower in 2017 in the TIOBE index and thus was declared the programming language of the year. The C language grew by 1.69% in 2017. Usually that's not good enough to be the language of the year, so C actually wins because there are no excellent alternatives. The runners-up are Python (+1.21%) and Erlang (+0.98%). Despite this, C is still growing in popularity after a sharp downward trend that began in late 2015. The C rating was above 17% at the time, before slipping more than 10% at C over the next 18 months. One possible reason for this resurgence is the growing popularity of C in manufacturing and machine building, including the automotive market. In 2017, the most interesting jumps in the TIOBE Index were in R (from 16 to 8), Erlang (from 44 to 23), and Kotlin (from 89 to 39). Promising languages like Julia, Hack, Rust, and Kotlin fail to make it into the top 20 or even the top 30.
TIOBE Programming Community Index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated monthly. Ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers, courses and third-party suppliers around the world. 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 with the most lines of code.
The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date, or to make strategic decisions about which programming language to adopt when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.
Top twenty language rankings
##Language Development Chart
# #Other Language Ranking
#The top 50 programming languages are listed below. This overview is unofficial, as it may be the case that we missed a language.
Source: TIOBE Language Ranking Index in January 2018
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