March 2022 TIOBE Ranking: Python Leads, Lua Returns to Top 20
The TIOBE index for March 2022 shows Python still at number one, Lua re‑entering the top‑20 while displacing Groovy, and several shifts among languages like Go, Delphi, R, and Swift, with detailed rankings and trends illustrated in accompanying charts.
TIOBE March 2022 Programming Language Ranking
TIOBE released its March 2022 programming language ranking. Python remains firmly at the top spot since October of the previous year.
Lua re‑enters the top‑20 , pushing Groovy out of the list.
CEO comment : TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen noted that Lua briefly entered the top‑10 in 2011 and is now gaining traction in game development due to its ease of learning, fast execution, and simple C interface. He highlighted Roblox’s use of Lua as a key factor in its resurgence.
Compared with the previous month, the top‑10 positions remain unchanged.
Go slipped back after briefly climbing to 11th place.
Delphi/Object Pascal rose from 15th to 12th, and R moved from 13th to 11th.
Swift continued its decline, falling from 10th to 12th in February and to 14th in March.
MATLAB dropped one spot from 14th to 15th.
Ruby, Visual Basic, Objective‑C, and Perl saw no change.
TOP 10 Programming Language TIOBE Index Trend (2002‑2022)
Ranks 21‑50
Ranks 51‑100 (alphabetical)
ABC, ActionScript, Alice, Apex, ATLAS, Bash, bc, BCPL, Boo, Bourne shell, C shell, CL (OS/400), Clipper, CLIPS, CoffeeScript, DCL, DiBOL, Dylan, ECMAScript, Eiffel, Elm, EXEC, F#, Factor, GML, Hack, Harbour, Haxe, Icon, IDL, Io, J#, Korn shell, Ladder Logic, LiveCode, LPC, ML, Monkey, OCaml, OpenCL, Oz, Processing, Q, Racket, REXX, Ring, S‑PLUS, Scheme, SPARK, Tcl
The TIOBE Programming Community Index measures language popularity based on the number of skilled engineers, courses, and third‑party vendors, using search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, and Baidu.
Note that the index reflects popularity, not the inherent quality of a language.
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