TIOBE released the programming language index for August 2012, the top 3 programming languages are still C, Java and Objective-C. Objective-C still performs well after it ranked 3rd place last month, it's still rising. Is there any possibilty Object-C will overtake Java in the near future?
However, Microsoft's C# doesn't look so good. C# is generally recognized as the enterprise language with most modern and expressive features available today and C# has shown more downward trends in the past and always recovered from this. But, Microsoft announced recently the revival of C++ (in favor of C#) within its company. C# appeared to be too high level to build high performance systems. This is confirmed by what we see happening to TIOBE's embedded software customers: after years of enthusiastic adoption of C#, there is now no significant growth any more. Let's see what happens to C# the next few months.
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TIOBE Programming Community Index is an indicator of the programming language trends. It is updated monthly, this list is based on the number of experienced programmers,courses and third-party vendors on the Internet. It uses the well-known search engines (such as Google, MSN, Yahoo) as well as Wikipedia and YouTube to calculate the ranking. Please note that this list is merely a reflection of the popularity of a programming language, does not indicate whether a programming language is good or not.
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