Which Languages Are Rising? TIOBE November 2022 Rankings Unveiled
The November 2022 TIOBE index shows Rust re‑entering the Top 20 with a record 0.70% share, highlights shifts among PHP, SQL, Scratch and other languages, and provides detailed rankings from the top 10 to the 100th position, offering insight into programming language popularity trends.
TIOBE November 2022 Programming Language Rankings
In November 2022, TIOBE published its monthly ranking of programming languages. Rust returned to the Top 20 with a historic 0.70% market share and maintained its position a month later, praised for its unique combination of speed and safety.
Following promising new languages is always interesting because they may become mainstream, but most receive only short‑lived attention without a real breakthrough. We have long awaited Kotlin, Dart, Julia to break into the Top 20, but only Rust succeeded. Its rise is driven by performance and safety.
Top 20 Languages
Compared with the previous month, PHP moved from rank 9 to 10, while SQL rose from 10 to 9, swapping positions. Other languages kept their ranks.
Ranks 11‑20 showed minor fluctuations. Notably, Scratch climbed from 23 to 17, while Fortran fell to 24. Languages that moved up include Classic Visual Basic (17→13), Delphi/Object Pascal (18→14) and Scratch (23→17). Those that slipped include Matlab (14→15), Objective‑C (13→16), Swift (15→18), Ruby (16→19) and Fortran (19→24). Go, R and Rust remained at positions 11, 12 and 20 respectively.
Perl dropped from 19 to 22 last month and fell to 23 this month, whereas Lua rose from 24 to 22, reflecting the popularity of high‑performance languages.
Top 10 Programming Language Trend (2002‑2022)
Ranks 21‑50
Ranks 51‑100 (alphabetical list)
ABC, ActionScript, Alice, Apex, AutoHotkey, B4X, bc, Bourne shell, C shell, CFML, CL (OS/400), Clipper, CLIPS, Clojure, Common Lisp, Crystal, Curl, Eiffel, Elixir, Erlang, Forth, Groovy, Icon, Inform, Io, J#, Ladder Logic, Modula‑2, MQL5, MUMPS, NATURAL, NXT‑G, OCaml, Occam, OpenCL, OpenEdge ABL, PostScript, Q, Racket, REXX, Ring, RPG, S, Solidity, SPARK, Stata, Tcl, Vala/Genie, Verilog, VHDL.
About the TIOBE Index
The TIOBE Programming Community Index measures the popularity of programming languages monthly, based on the number of skilled engineers, courses, and third‑party vendors worldwide. Search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used for the calculations. The index does not assess language quality or the amount of code written.
It can help you gauge whether your programming skills keep pace with industry trends or guide language choices when starting a new software project.
For the definition and full ranking details, visit the official site: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Source: OSC Open Source Community
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