As new technologies gain in popularity, their programming languages keep up with fame, becoming the darlings of programmers. The language Python, which gained its popularity with artificial intelligence and machine learning, reached the top of the Tiobe Index October, surpassed until then, the insurmountable languages Java e C.
“Python, which started out as a simple scripting language, as an alternative to Perl, has matured. Its ease of learning, its large number of libraries and its widespread use in all types of domains have made it the most popular programming language today”, he wrote Paul Jansen, head of Tiobe Software.
JavaScript, the standard for front-end web development, is always at the top of the index list of the RedMonk. For Tiobe, its corporate focus has seen Java and C dominate in recent years, but Python has clung to Java and has now outpaced it, highlights the ZDNet publication.
The Python language is also gaining ground, in part, because of the rise of data science and its ecosystem of machine learning software libraries like NumPy, pandas, TensorFlow. Google, and PyTorch. Facebook.
However, Python's rise to the top of the rankings was due to the drop of other languages in the polls.
The leader had 11,27% participation in the polls and remained stable compared to October 2020, but its podium competitors have fallen. The C language dropped 5,79% percentage points from the same period last year, leading to an 11,16% share in October 2021. Java, meanwhile, paved the way for Python with a drop of 2,11, 10,46 percentage points to XNUMX%.
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The other top 10 languages in Tiobe's October 2021 index included C++, C#, Visual Basic, JavaScript, SQL, PHP and language assemblyy. It also rose on an annual basis and among the top 20 are Go, designed by Google, MATLAB e Fortran.
Tiobe's rankings match other indexes on the JavaScript issue, however, it is in line with Python and Java as being the most popular languages.
The Tiobe Programming Community Index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages, with a corporate focus, and updated monthly. Rankings are based on the number of qualified engineers worldwide, courses and third-party vendors. Popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube e Baidu are used to calculate ratings.
