TIOBE Index for December 2023

December Headline: C# on its way to become programming language of the year 2023

2023年12月的TIOBE指数：12月头条:c#将成为2023年最佳编程语言

Yes, I know, we have been here before. At the end of 2022, it looked like C# would become the programming language of that year. But at the final moment, C++ took the title unexpectedly. This year we are a bit surer that C# is going to win. It gained +2.38% in 1 year, whereas its closest contenders Fortran and F# only gained +0.64% and +0.48% respectively. It might look a bit strange that most of the top 20 languages lost popularity in 2023. So what happened? The answer lies in the long tail, where all the small languages reside. Those are all moving up a bit and are getting closer to the big languages. To illustrate this: one year ago the number 50 language had a score of 0.14%. The current number 50 language has a score of 0.24%. Anyway, we are all curious to see which language will become the programming language of the year! -- Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software

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.