TIOBE Programming Community Index

The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication 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. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

Position Apr 2008	Position Apr 2007	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Apr 2008	Delta Apr 2007	Status
1	1		Java	20.529%	+2.17%	A
2	2		C	14.684%	-0.25%	A
3	5		(Visual) Basic	11.699%	+3.42%	A
4	4		PHP	10.328%	+1.69%	A
5	3		C++	9.945%	-0.77%	A
6	6		Perl	5.934%	-0.10%	A
7	7		Python	4.534%	+0.72%	A
8	8		C#	3.834%	+0.28%	A
9	10		Ruby	2.855%	+0.06%	A
10	11		Delphi	2.665%	+0.33%	A
11	9		JavaScript	2.434%	-0.70%	A
12	14		D	1.169%	-0.35%	A
13	13		PL/SQL	0.608%	-1.28%	B
14	12		SAS	0.572%	-1.63%	A--
15	21		Pascal	0.513%	-0.06%	B
16	17		Lisp/Scheme	0.476%	-0.20%	B
17	22		FoxPro/xBase	0.459%	-0.09%	B
18	18		COBOL	0.409%	-0.24%	A--
19	16		Ada	0.393%	-0.29%	B
20	31		ColdFusion	0.384%	+0.11%	B