Which Programming Language is most used?

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

After having been a close runner-up for 2 years, Objective-C has won the TIOBE programming language award of 2011. This award is given to the programming language that gained most market share in 2011. The market share of Objective-C is 3.91% higher than it was in January 2011. The major cause of this is the continuing success of the iPhone and the iPad, which both are mainly implemented in Objective-C.


What were the other interesting moves in the TIOBE index in 2011? Apart from Objective-C also C# made a considerable leap forward (+2.55%), followed by C (+1.15%) and JavaScript (+0.73%). On the other hand, 2011 was a bad year for last year winner Python (-3.05%) and PHP (-2.13%). What about 2012? Is there any new programming language to hit the top 10 in 2012? We doubt so. Possible candidates are F#, Groovy and R. For instance, the R language entered the top 20 this month for the first time. This language for statisticians is becoming the major programming language in its field.