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20 most popular programming languages in 2017
Developers have been blessed with a variety of programming languages to choose from over the years. But which ones are currently the most popular with developers?
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The Tiobe site has a helpful list of the most popular programming languages in 2017:
The Tiobe Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings.
It is important to note that the Tiobe index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
20. Scratch
19. Objective-C
18. PL/SQL
17. MATLAB
16. Visual Basic
15. R
14. Go
13. Assembly language
12. Swift
11. Ruby
10. Perl
9. Delphi/Object Pascal
8. Visual Basic .NET
7. JavaScript
6. PHP
5. Python
4. C#
3. C++
2. C
1. Java
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