Why Lua Re‑Entered TIOBE’s Top 20 in March 2022 – Trends & Insights
The March 2022 TIOBE index shows Python retaining the top spot while Lua re‑enters the top‑20, driven by Roblox’s popularity, and provides detailed movements of languages such as Go, Delphi, R, Swift, and MATLAB, along with charts and a full list of the top 100 rankings.
March 2022 TIOBE Programming Language Ranking
TIOBE released its March 2022 ranking, which measures programming language popularity based on search‑engine results.
Top 20 Highlights
Python remains firmly at number 1, a position it has held since October of the previous year. Lua re‑entered the top 20, likely boosted by the popularity of the Roblox gaming platform, which uses Lua as its primary language.
TIOBE CEO Paul Jansen’s comment
"In its peak in 2011, Lua briefly entered the top 10. It is unclear whether it will return, but it is evident that Lua is catching up in the game‑development market: easy to learn, fast execution, and simple C integration make it an ideal choice for game work. One of the recent drivers of Lua’s success is the very popular platform Roblox, which uses Lua as its main language."
Top 20 List – Notable Movements
Go slipped from 11th to 13th place.
Delphi/Object Pascal rose from 15th to 12th, and R climbed from 13th to 11th.
Swift continued its decline, falling from 10th in February to 14th.
MATLAB dropped one spot, moving from 14th to 15th.
Ruby, VB, Objective‑C, and Perl saw no change.
Top 10 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.
How the TIOBE Index Is Calculated
The index is based on the number of search results for each language across major search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, and Baidu, as well as data from developers, courses, and third‑party vendors.
Detailed methodology can be found at https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-definition/ .
The TIOBE index does not represent language quality; preferences vary like different vegetables.
For more information, visit the TIOBE website: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ .
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