2018年10月份编程语言排行榜（来自TIOBE Index for October 2018）

TIOBE Index for October 2018

from：https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index//

October Headline: Swift is knocking at the door of the TIOBE index top 10

TIOBE 指数发布了 10 月份的编程语言排行榜，排名前三的依旧是Java、C、C++。

The top 9 of programming languages in the TIOBE index is quite stable now for some time, but the number 10 position is changing almost every month. This month Swift is trying to become a permanent member of the TIOBE index top 10. In the recent past Ruby and Perl were fighting for this position but they both seem to have had their best time. There seem to be 3 serious candidates for the top 10 position at the moment: Swift, Go and R, but even these are uncertain. Swift is clearly the number one programming language to develop mobile apps for iOS. Although Swift is now also available for Android (apart from its home platform iOS), it is not used that often for Android development yet, so you see developers move to "write once deploy everywhere" frameworks instead. Programming language R on the other hand is getting serious competition from Python nowadays. And for the Go programming language it is unclear what makes it stand out when compared to other programming languages. Let's see what is going to happen.

IMPORTANT NOTE. SQL has been added again to the TIOBE index since February 2018. The reason for this is that SQL appears to be Turing complete. As a consequence, there is no recent history for the language and thus it might seem that the SQL language is rising very fast. This is not the case.

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.

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.