Java Leads Again; VB in Massive Decline
According to TIOBE Programming Community Index Java is the leading programming language again, ahead of C and C++, its nearest rivals.
Perl and PHP occupy 4th and 5th positions respectively attesting to the power of scripting languages.
Within the .NET languages only C# appears likely to survive. VB has suffered large decline and is currently in 6th position.
Ruby is at 28th behind DBase (didn't know people still used it).
At the moment there is a trend that both Visual Studio 6 core languages, C++ and Visual Basic, are losing heavily (-8.89% for the last year). Are all those Visual Studio 6 users moving to Visual Studio.NET? Apparently not. VB.NET and (managed) C++ are not gaining popularity. The only language that is still on the rise is C#. But that only counts for 1.7%.
Source: TIOBE
Does these results agree with your experience?
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February 8th, 2006 at 3:43 am
[...] Java is the No. 1 language on planet earth, high performing and very easy to use. Developers can jumpstart with a rich set of free libraries bundled with JDK and get extensive community support through local JUG’s and the community in general. [...]
March 6th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
[...] Java is dying / dead [...]
January 20th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
So now that Java is down 3% year on year, are you going to toll the death bell for it? And good old VB is now in 4th position above the so-called “powerful” PHP and Pearl, both of which are suffering from major security problems…hmmm…