TIOBE Index for January 2016

If you are related to IT business in anyway, you must be aware of the TIOBE programming index.

The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages.

Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings.

The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors.

Why is this index so important ?

For instance, the index can be used to:

Check whether your programming skills are still up to date.
Make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system.

The top 18 of programming languages is listed below, including their previous performance:

You can check the overview of all programming languages that TIOBE monitors here: Programming Languages

And the definition of the TIOBE index can be found here: TIOBE Index Definition

Hope you find this information useful!

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