Tiobe’s month-to-month index relies on a components assessing the variety of expert engineers worldwide, programs, and third-party distributors pertinent to a language. Popular web pages reminiscent of Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, Bing, and greater than 20 others are used to calculate the scores.
Elsewhere within the Tiobe index for 2024, the C language declined in reputation and was surpassed by C++ and Java. The primary purpose for this was that C was changed by C++ in a variety of embedded techniques, Jansen stated. “Java and C++ are currently fighting for the top 2 position. The other interesting thing is that PHP said a final farewell to the top 10 and is replaced by Go, which is a top 10 keeper.”
Jansen additionally remarked on Rust and Kotlin. “Rust is still getting more popular. Despite the amazing speed of Rust programs, its steep learning curve will never make it become the lingua franca of the common programmer unfortunately. Kotlin, on the other hand, disappointed: it didn’t break through and even lost (possibly permanently) its top 20 position in 2024.” Also famous in Jansen’s report had been the rises of Zig, which climbed from 149th place to 61st in 2024, and Mojo, which jumped from 194th place to 68th place. “I have high hopes that [Mojo] will get close to a top 20 position in 2025,” Jansen stated.
