Will Go or SQL Top the 2018 TIOBE Language Rankings?
The article reviews the October 2018 TIOBE programming language rankings, highlighting shifts such as Go moving into the top ten, SQL’s re‑entry, Rust’s slight decline, and provides a historical top‑10 trend chart while explaining the index’s methodology and its relevance for developers.
In two months, TIOBE will announce the 2018 Programming Language of the Year, expected to be among the top five: Java, C, C+, Python and Visual Basic.NET. While new languages appear, their adoption remains too low for the award.
For example, Apex rose from 46 to 36 and Alice from 62 to 44 last month, but both grew less than 0.5% in 2018, making them unlikely contenders.
Next, the October programming language ranking TOP 20 is shown.
Go’s ranking rose slightly from 12 to 10.
SQL was re‑added to the TIOBE list in February 2018; lacking prior data, it may appear to have a sudden surge.
TOP 10 Programming Language TIOBE Index Trend (2002-2018)
In the 21‑50 range, Rust slipped from 34 to 37.
Ranks 51‑100 are listed alphabetically because their values are close:
ABC, ActionScript, Applescript, BBC BASIC, bc, Bourne shell, C shell, CL (OS/400), Clipper, Clojure, CoffeeScript, Common Lisp, cT, Elixir, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Euphoria, Forth, Hack, Icon, Inform, Io, Korn shell, Lasso, LiveCode, Maple, Mercury, ML, Modula-2
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures programming language popularity, updated monthly, based on the number of engineers, courses, and third‑party vendors. It uses major search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu. The calculation method is described at https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-definition/. Note that the TIOBE index does not represent language quality; developers can use it to check whether they need to update their skills or to choose a language for new software projects.
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