After C fell from the highest 3 ultimate month, this month’s most sensible programming languages noticed rather little exchange at the TIOBE Programming Community Index. However, the programming neighborhood is looking for a brand new language with the 3 maximum fascinating characteristics: safety, pace, and a simple on-ramp for brand spanking new programmers.

This month, we’ll duvet the state of seek, Rust’s upward thrust in reputation, and the exceptional development of the Mojo language only one yr after its unencumber.

At primary, Python jumped from 20.17% in September to 21.9% in October. In 2nd position, C++ rose from 10.75% in September to 11.6%. In 3rd, Java ascended from 9.45% to ten.51%.

The TIOBE Programming Community Index presentations tendencies in programming languages in accordance with seek engine quantity.

Searching for choices to Python

“In today’s world, the amount of available data of whatever kind is increasing rapidly, and the demand to harvest this data is increasing accordingly,” wrote TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen within the per thirty days unencumber of the TIOBE Index. “Hence, there is now a need for programming languages that are good in data manipulation, number crunching and being fast. Next to this, there are two other important characteristics high on everybody’s list: languages should be easy to learn and should be secure.”

Forwarding easy-to-learn programming languages is particularly vital as early profession programmers, or individuals who switched to programming as a 2nd profession, come into the sphere in keeping with the abilities hole.

Python — the #1 language at the TIOBE Index — is “easy to learn and secure, but not fast,” wrote Jansen. Therefore, the search for a brand new language that may do all of it is on.

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C++ is a well-liked candidate for the crown, nevertheless it isn’t safe sufficient because of its specific reminiscence control, Jansen wrote. Despite it being tricky to be told, Rust is expanding in reputation and could be a candidate to suit all 3 buckets neatly sufficient to succeed in the TIOBE Index most sensible 10. Rust sits at quantity 13 in October, rising in reputation from 1.32% in September to one.45% in October.

Mojo language enters most sensible 50 after only one yr

Jansen highlighted some other language to look at: Mojo.

Created in 2023 via Chris Lattner at Modular, Inc., Mojo entered the TIOBE Index most sensible 50 this month for the primary time, at forty ninth position. Mojo is “a mix of Python and Swift, but much faster,” Jansen wrote. Its speedy ascension into the highest 50 makes it a programming language to look at. Modular advertises Mojo as a language appropriate for programming “low-level AI hardware” with no need to make use of NVIDIA’s CUDA structure.