“Python seems to be unstoppable,” argues the commentary on August’s edition of the TIOBE index (which attempts to calculate programming-language popularity based on search results for courses, vendors, and “skilled engineers”).
By that measure Python’s “market share” rose another 2% in this month’s index — to an all-time high of 15.42%.
It is hard to find a field of programming in which Python is not used extensively nowadays. The only exception is (safety-critical) embedded systems because of Python being dynamically typed and too slow. That is why the performant languages C and C++ are gaining popularity as well at the moment.
If we look at the rest of the TIOBE index, not that much happened last month. Swift and PHP swapped places again at position 10, Rust is getting close to the top 20, Kotlin is back in the top 30, and the new Google language Carbon enters the TIOBE index at position 192.
InfoWorld notes it’s been 10 months since Python first claimed the index’s #1 spot last October, “becoming the only language besides Java and C to hold the No. 1 position.”
In the alternative Pypl Popularity of Programming Language index, which assesses language popularity based on Google searches of programming language tutorials, the top 10 rankings for August were:
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. Objective-C, 2.03%