TIOBE released the programming index for September 2012. There is no big change for this month compared to last month, the top 3 are still C, Java and Objective-C. In top 20, only Transact-SQL exchanged the position with VB.NET. Java shows trend of drop, will it be worse because of the ignorance of Java's vulnerabilities by Oracle.
This index shows that the programing lnaguage market is quite normal, no big events. Except Objective-C, in recent years there are no other new languages which have big rank leap. If we expect that Scala, Dart or Clojure have big breakthrough, then how long should we wait?
It also may because with the performance improvemnet of hardware, the requirement to language performance is not so eager than before, many problems related to speed and efficiency in software design can be solved by adding more powerful hardware. So the incentive to have more powerful or efficient programming language is not so strong.
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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.
