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Picuino:
TIOBE Index


--- Quote ---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 web sites Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, Bing and more than 20 others 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.
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June 2024 Headline: C++ surpasses C for the first time in history

--- Quote ---C++ is the new number 2 in the TIOBE index. Originally, dubbed as the better and object-oriented version of C, it took C++ 39 years after its inception to beat C's popularity. C++ has never been that high in the TIOBE index, whereas C has never been that low. C++ started a new life as of 2011 with its consistent 3 yearly updates. Although most compilers and most engineers can't take up with this pace, it is considered a success to see the language evolve. The main strenghts of C++ are its performance and scalability. Its downside is its many ways to get things done, i.e. its rich idiom of features, which is caused by its long history and aim for backward compatibility. C++ is heavily used in embedded systems, game development and financial trading software, just to name a few domains. Other highlights of the TIOBE index this month are Go, which is at position #7 for the first time, and Rust with an all time high at position #17. --Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software
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golden_labels:
People love things looking sciencey and rationalistic. Without ever considering, if they make any sense.

I point everybody’s attention to position 16 on that list.

Picuino:
At what age did you start programming and with what language?
In my case 12 / BASIC and I wish it had been Scratch instead of BASIC.

coppice:
I'm please to see that after 60 years COBOL is still rising in popularity.

More seriously, its interesting that it still scores more than 10% of the score for Java.

golden_labels:
Not sure, if I understand the intentions of Picuino’s question right. So for now I will answer that directly.

Hard to tell, but certainly(1) before turning 12. My first steps were in DOS Batch. Then a very short period of VBA, followed by VB6. VB6 was also the first language I used to earn money (around 2002). I recall that was a pretty sudden change: just like 2–3 years earlier I was afraid of computers. Almost cried after closing Program Manager in Windows 3.11, thinking I broke the computer and my mother will have to pay for it. Then I discovered I can edit savegames and strings in games on my father’s computer, and got hooked instantly. The first programs were launchers for games using BE.EXE.

(1) I was expelled from school in 5th grade, which corresponds to 1997. At that point I was already programming and I’m from 1985.

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