Objective-C language of the year 2011!

After just barely missing out 2 years in a row (first to Go and then to Python), Objective-C finally managed to snatch Tiobe's programming language of the year award for 2011. Yay!

Objective-C managed a jump of 3.91% to 6.92% in 2011, and is now only a percent or so shy of C++ (8.06%), which incidentally just got edged out by C# (8.78%). It also zoomed ahead of Python (3.22%), which squeaked by Objective-C just barely last year to take top honors, but has now fallen below PHP and Visual BASIC.

Ruby, Perl and JavaScript are in the 1-3% range.

As TIOBE doesn't appear to keep old posts around the above link is likely to go stale in about a month. Here is the table:

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

And the graph: