Most Popular Languages as of January 2012
| Position Jan 2012 |
Position Jan 2011 |
Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Jan 2012 |
Delta Jan 2011 |
Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  |
Java | 17.479% | -0.29% | A |
| 2 | 2 | |
C | 16.976% | +1.15% | A |
| 3 | 6 |  |
C# | 8.781% | +2.55% | A |
| 4 | 3 |  |
C++ | 8.063% | -0.72% | A |
| 5 | 8 | |
Objective-C | 6.919% | +3.91% | A |
| 6 | 4 | |
PHP | 5.710% | -2.13% | A |
| 7 | 7 | |
(Visual) Basic | 4.531% | -1.34% | A |
| 8 | 5 | |
Python | 3.218% | -3.05% | A |
| 9 | 9 | |
Perl | 2.773% | -0.08% | A |
| 10 | 11 | |
JavaScript | 2.322% | +0.73% | A |
| 11 | 12 | |
Delphi/Object Pascal | 1.576% | +0.29% | A |
| 12 | 10 | |
Ruby | 1.441% | -0.34% | A |
| 13 | 13 | |
Lisp | 1.111% | +0.00% | A |
| 14 | 14 | |
Pascal | 0.798% | -0.12% | A |
| 15 | 17 | |
Transact-SQL | 0.772% | +0.01% | A |
| 16 | 24 | |
PL/SQL | 0.709% | +0.15% | A |
| 17 | 20 | |
Ada | 0.634% | -0.05% | B |
| 18 | 39 | |
Logo | 0.632% | +0.29% | B |
| 19 | 25 | |
R | 0.609% | +0.07% | B |
| 20 | 21 | |
Lua | 0.559% | -0.08% | B |
source: tiobe language priority
As of December 2009- Java, C, and PHP were the top three languages.
Most Popular Languages in 2009
source: tiobe language priority
