Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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

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Java

17.479%

-0.29%

  A

2

2

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C

16.976%

+1.15%

  A

3

6

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C#

8.781%

+2.55%

  A

4

3

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C++

8.063%

-0.72%

  A

5

8

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Objective-C

6.919%

+3.91%

  A

6

4

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PHP

5.710%

-2.13%

  A

7

7

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(Visual) Basic

4.531%

-1.34%

  A

8

5

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Python

3.218%

-3.05%

  A

9

9

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Perl

2.773%

-0.08%

  A

10

11

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JavaScript

2.322%

+0.73%

  A

11

12

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Delphi/Object Pascal

1.576%

+0.29%

  A

12

10

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Ruby

1.441%

-0.34%

  A

13

13

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Lisp

1.111%

+0.00%

  A

14

14

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Pascal

0.798%

-0.12%

  A

15

17

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Transact-SQL

0.772%

+0.01%

  A

16

24

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PL/SQL

0.709%

+0.15%

  A

17

20

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Ada

0.634%

-0.05%

  B

18

39

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Logo

0.632%

+0.29%

  B

19

25

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R

0.609%

+0.07%

  B

20

21

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Lua

0.559%

-0.08%

  B

And the graph: Tpci trends January 2012