The latest update to the TIOBE Index reveals notable shifts in the world of software development. While traditional programming languages remain popular, many developers are seeking out technologies that can make sense of the vast amounts of modern digital data. Legacy languages like C, COBOL, Fortran, and Assembly still have their place, but they no longer take center stage.

  • kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
    473·
    2 months ago

    I really wonder about their methodology. JavaScript/Typescript is nearly ubiquitous in webdev, and has been making strides in the backend space for almost a decade now. No matter how you feel about it (yeah it’s terrible, I’ve been press-ganged into it this year) it’s a real force in the marketplace.

    It’s super surprising to me it’s still behind C and C++.

    • umt@lemmynsfw.com
      48·
      2 months ago

      The fact that the scratch language is in the top 20 should tell you how seriously you should take this metric. TIOBE measures the number of search hits mentioning the language. So a language that is popular with learners, or that has poor documentation and thus requires a lot of third party documentation, or that it is profitable to run ads next to will all be inflated.

      • umt@lemmynsfw.com
        202·
        2 months ago

        I personally think the advertising bump is why matlab is on there. Matlab programmers are the kind of dingleberries that love to pay for something that everyone else uses a foss alternative for.

    • a1studmuffin@aussie.zoneEnglish
      20·
      2 months ago

      C/C++ still has a huge place in firmware, microcontrollers, operating systems, drivers, application development, video games, real-time systems and so on. It’s a totally different space of programming to webdev, which might explain the surprise.

        • GetOffMyLan@programming.dev
          3·
          2 months ago

          I mean it’s not hard so much as very dated and a bit shit.

          I could use raw pointers in c# if I wanted to. But it’s just not a great way to do things.

          C will likely have a place where low languages are required for a long time. But everywhere else there’s little reason to choose over more modern languages.

      • kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        2 months ago

        I’m not really a webdev, more backend or full stack at this point. I do know about C & C++ strong presence in firmware, OS, HPC, video gaming, and elsewhere.

        But by the numbers there’s a lot more webdevs than any other kind out there, and that doesn’t even touch on NodeJS leaking into backend and elsewhere.

    • Paradox@lemdro.idEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Not only that, but with toolchains like deno, it’s almost enjoyable

      I wrote some telegram bots in deno and it’s got one of the cleanest deploy chains around, just compile to an executable for the target architecture, and SCP it over. Exec is statically linked, and so it just works

    • Voytrekk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Everyone that does frontend works with JS/TS and it’s becoming popular on the backend as well. Definitely the most popular language IMO.

      • nous@programming.devEnglish
        151·
        2 months ago

        *in the web dev domain.

        Which also has a very disproportionate representation on the web - for obvious reasons. And it is very easy to get stuck in the mentatilty that all you see if the domain you are in so you over estimate how large it is compaired to other domains. But lets not forget general application development, old large scale enterprise, embedded systems, game dev, machine learning and many more spaces where JS/TS are barely used at all.

      • Treczoks@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        I wonder how much of that actually is development and not just the gazillionth instance of some web site builders scripts.