Tables have been turned in May 2020, after a long time C has been the top programming language overtaking Java. Below are reports published in PYPL and TIBOE indicating the same.
PYPL Index (PopularitY of Programming Language) – http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html , Below is the snippet for May 2020, You can visit the PYPL site for more details
| Rank | Language | Share | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 31.17 % | +4.3 % |
| 2 | Java | 17.75 % | -2.4 % |
| 3 | Javascript | 7.99 % | -0.3 % |
| 4 | C# | 7.05 % | -0.2 % |
| 5 | PHP | 6.09 % | -1.0 % |
| 6 | C/C++ | 5.67 % | -0.3 % |
| 7 | R | 3.93 % | -0.1 % |
| 8 | Objective-C | 2.4 % | -0.4 % |
| 9 | Swift | 2.26 % | -0.1 % |
| 10 | TypeScript | 1.89 % | +0.3 % |
| 11 | Matlab | 1.81 % | -0.2 % |
| 12 | Kotlin | 1.55 % | +0.3 % |
| 13 | VBA | 1.33 % | +0.0 % |
| 14 | Go | 1.26 % | +0.1 % |
| 15 | Ruby | 1.19 % | -0.2 % |
| 16 | Scala | 1.01 % | -0.1 % |
| 17 | Visual Basic | 0.91 % | -0.2 % |
| 18 | Rust | 0.75 % | +0.2 % |
| 19 | Abap | 0.55 % | +0.0 % |
| 20 | Dart | 0.49 % | +0.2 % |
| 21 | Perl | 0.44 % | -0.2 % |
| 22 | Cobol | 0.42 % | +0.1 % |
| 23 | Lua | 0.41 % | +0.0 % |
| 24 | Groovy | 0.4 % | -0.1 % |
| 25 | Ada | 0.4 % | +0.0 % |
| 26 | Julia | 0.3 % | +0.0 % |
| 27 | Haskell | 0.3 % | -0.0 % |
| 28 | Delphi | 0.27 % | +0.0 % |
TIOBE Index for May 2020 – https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ Below is the snippet of this index, you can visit the link for more details
| May 2020 | May 2019 | Programming Language | Ratings | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | C | 17.07% | +2.82% |
| 2 | 1 | Java | 16.28% | +0.28% |
| 3 | 4 | Python | 9.12% | +1.29% |
| 4 | 3 | C++ | 6.13% | -1.97% |
| 5 | 6 | C# | 4.29% | +0.30% |
| 6 | 5 | Visual Basic | 4.18% | -1.01% |
| 7 | 7 | JavaScript | 2.68% | -0.01% |
| 8 | 9 | PHP | 2.49% | -0.00% |
| 9 | 8 | SQL | 2.09% | -0.47% |
| 10 | 21 | R | 1.85% | +0.90% |
| 11 | 18 | Swift | 1.79% | +0.64% |
| 12 | 19 | Go | 1.27% | +0.15% |
| 13 | 14 | MATLAB | 1.17% | -0.20% |
| 14 | 10 | Assembly language | 1.12% | -0.69% |
| 15 | 15 | Ruby | 1.02% | -0.32% |
| 16 | 20 | PL/SQL | 0.99% | -0.03% |
| 17 | 16 | Classic Visual Basic | 0.89% | -0.43% |
| 18 | 13 | Perl | 0.88% | -0.51% |
| 19 | 28 | Scratch | 0.83% | +0.32% |
| 20 | 11 | Objective-C | 0.80% | -0.83% |
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