For the second consecutive year, Python has been named TIobe’s programming language of the year, a distinction the firm awards to the language with the greatest maximize in ratings – or reputation – for the year 2021.

Python’s year-around-year maximize in reputation was one.86 %, according to Tiobe, with a year-close ranking of 13.58 % in the Tiobe index. Tiobe noted this was nonetheless considerably below Java’s all-time file of 26.forty nine % obtained in 2001. Tiobe mentioned C# was on its way to getting to be the language of the year but was surpassed by Python in the final month.

Python, which has turn into a staple in information science, devops, and world wide web growth, also is now the most preferred language in Tiobe’s rankings. Rating as the 3rd most preferred language in the index at the commencing of 2021, Python ascended to the top rated spot in October.

The every month Tiobe Programming Local community index attracts on preferred look for engines to evaluate language reputation, based mostly on the variety of qualified engineers around the globe, courses, and 3rd-celebration distributors pertinent to a language. Tiobe, which supplies computer software quality services, identifies Swift, Go, Rust, and Kotlin as languages on an upward trajectory in the index.

The top rated ten languages in the Tiobe index for January 2022 have been as follows:

  1. Python, 13.58 %
  2. C, twelve.44 %
  3. Java ten.sixty six %
  4. C++, 8.29 %
  5. C#, five.sixty eight %
  6. Visual Standard, four.74 %
  7. JavaScript, two.09 %
  8. Assembly, one.eighty five %
  9. SQL, one.8 %
  10. Swift, one.41 %

Python also topped this month’s Pypl Reputation of Programming Language index, which analyzes how often language tutorials are searched in Google. The Pypl top rated ten for January 2022 have been as follows:

  1. Python, 28.74 %
  2. Java, 18.01 %
  3. JavaScript, 9.07 %
  4. C/C++, 7.four %
  5. C#, 7.27 %
  6. PHP, six.06 %
  7. R, four.19 %
  8. Goal-C, two.27 %
  9. Swift, one.91 %
  10. TypeScript, one.74 %

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