The TIOBE Index for September 2021 has been released. The monthly TIOBE Programming Community index determines programming languages popularity. The ratings originate from the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to formulate ratings. Last year, C++ was the “fastest growing language at +1.48%. This year, Python has moved up the ladder according to the index:
Python has never been so close to the number 1 position of the TIOBE index. It only needs to bridge 0.16% to surpass C. This might happen any time now. If Python becomes number 1, a new milestone has been reached in the TIOBE index. Only 2 other languages have ever been leading the pack so far, i.e. C and Java. Let’s see what happens next month.
Other interesting moves this month are: Assembly gained 1 position from #9 to #8, Ruby gained 2 positions from #15 to #13, and Go went up even 4 positions from #18 to #14. — Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software.
| Sep 2021 | Programming Language | Ratings | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C | 11.83% | -4.12% |
| 2 | Python | 11.67% | +1.20% |
| 3 | Java | 11.12% | -2.37% |
| 4 | C++ | 7.13% | +0.01% |
| 5 | C# | 5.78% | +1.20% |
| 6 | Visual Basic | 4.62% | +0.50% |
| 7 | JavaScript | 2.55% | +0.01% |
| 8 | Assembly language | 2.42% | +1.12% |
| 9 | PHP | 1.85% | -0.64% |
| 10 | SQL | 1.80% | +0.04% |
| 11 | Classic Visual Basic | 1.52% | +0.77% |
| 12 | Groovy | 1.46% | +0.48% |
| 13 | Ruby | 1.27% | +0.03% |
| 14 | Go | 1.13% | -0.33% |
| 15 | Swift | 1.07% | -0.31% |
| 16 | MATLAB | 1.02% | -0.07% |
| 17 | Fortran | 1.01% | +0.65% |
| 18 | R | 0.98% | -1.40% |
| 19 | Perl | 0.78% | -0.53% |
