2006-04-06 #1

Java Overtakes C

TIOBE Programming Community Index for April 2006

There are a number of interesting points to be taken from the results, including:

• Java has overtaken C as the #1 language at 21.275%
• Java is the language to increase its rating the most (+4.29%)
• Perl is the language to decrease its rating the most (-4.35%)
• Java's increase (+4.29%) is greater than C#'s total (3.948%)
• For the first time Object-Oriented languages are now as popular as procedural-languages (49%/49%)
• Java is 72 times more popular than Smalltalk
• Smalltalk placed surprising low in 30th place
• Java is 30 times more popular than Lisp/Scheme
• Lisp/Scheme placed surprising high in 14th place