Python reputation nonetheless hovering | InfoWorld

Practically a yr after Python first topped Tiobe’s index of programming language reputation, the language continues to attain excessive with builders.

Within the just-published August 2022 rankings, Python as soon as once more topped the chart as the preferred programming language, gaining two share factors since final month to register a 15.42% market share, an all time excessive for the language. Python first took the highest spot within the index final October, turning into the one language moreover Java and C to carry the No. 1 place.

“Python appears to be unstoppable,” mentioned the Tiobe commentary accompanying the August index. The Tiobe index relies on a formulation that assesses the outcomes of searches on the languages in main serps equivalent to Google, Yahoo, and Bing and web sites equivalent to Wikipedia.

“It’s arduous to discover a area of programming wherein Python shouldn’t be used extensively these days. The one exception is (safety-critical) embedded methods due to Python being dynamically typed and too gradual,” Tiobe’s commentary famous. C and C++, in the meantime, are being leveraged for embedded methods, mentioned Tiobe, which supplies software program high quality administration companies.

In different Tiobe index outcomes for August, Rust ranked No. 22, closing in on the highest 20, whereas Carbon, lately unveiled as a possible successor to C++, entered the index at 192.

The highest 10 rankings for the Tiobe index for August had been:

1. Python, 15.42% share
2. C, 14.59%
3. Java, 12.4%
4. C++, 10.17%
5. C#, 5.59%
6. Visible Primary, 4.99%
7. JavaScript, 2.33%
8. Meeting, 2.17%
9. SQL, 1.7%
10. PHP, 1.39%

Within the various Pypl Reputation of Programming Language index, which assesses language reputation based mostly on Google searches of programming language tutorials, the highest 10 rankings for August had been:

1. Python, 28.11% share
2. Java, 17.35%
3. JavaScript, 9.48%
4. C#, 7.08%
5. C/C++, 6.19%
6. PHP, 5.47%
7. R, 4.35%
8. TypeScript, 2.79%
9. Swift, 2.09%
10. Goal-C, 2.03%