Which Programming Language Is Gaining Momentum? August 2020 TIOBE Index Highlights
The TIOBE August 2020 ranking shows R soaring to the top‑8 spot with the highest growth, a tight contest among SQL, Go and Swift for positions 10‑12, Rust’s brief top‑20 appearance, and overall stability in the top‑10 while lower ranks fluctuate significantly.
TIOBE released its August 2020 programming language ranking.
The language with the highest growth index was R, moving from rank 18 at the start of the year to rank 8, and it is speculated to become the language of the year.
SQL, Go and Swift contested the 10‑12 positions, with Swift dropping from 10 to 12.
Top 20 Languages (August 2020)
Overall, the top‑10 positions changed little, while lower ranks were more volatile. Scratch fell out of the list, appearing at rank 22, and Groovy re‑entered at rank 18.
Rust entered the top‑20 in June, rose two places last month, but fell back to rank 20 this month.
Objective‑C returned to rank 19 after two months away, while PL/SQL dropped to rank 25.
Hack appeared in the top‑50 at rank 44.
Top 10 Language Trend (2002‑2020)
Ranks 21‑50
Ranks 51‑100
ABC, Alice, APL, AutoLISP, Bash, bc, Bourne shell, C shell, Clipper, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Common Lisp, Crystal, cT, Elixir, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Euphoria, F#, Forth, Icon, IDL, Inform, Io, Korn shell, LabVIEW, Ladder Logic, LiveCode, Maple, Mercury, ML, MQL4, NATURAL, NXT-G, OpenCL, Oz, PL/I, PostScript, Q, Racket, Red, Ring, RPG, S, Smalltalk, SPARK, Stata, Vala/Genie, Verilog, VHDL
The TIOBE 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.
The index does not reflect language quality; developers can use it to assess skill updates or choose a language for new projects.
Full rankings are available on the TIOBE website.
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