In an anticipated move, Tiobe recognized Microsoft's C#, an object-oriented language instrumental in building .NET applications, as the 2023 programming language of the year. This announcement, the first of its kind in favor of C#, was made on January 6, acknowledging the language's substantial rise in popularity - an increment of 1.43 percentage points year on year.
Tiobe, a Programming Community Index with a history dating back to 2001, evaluates language popularity based on several parameters. These include the extent of proficient engineers globally, the prevalence of related courses, and the number of third-party vendors. The process involves counting search results on popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Wikipedia.
Over the past two decades, C# has secured its position among the top 10 programming languages. With its escalating popularity, it is now closing in on the 'big four' languages - Python, C, C++, and Java, according to Tiobe. Scratch (0.83%) and Fortran (0.64%) were other languages that saw substantial gains in use. According to Tiobe, C# is claiming the market share previously held by Java and is gaining traction in areas like web application backend and gaming.
In the previous year, the Tiobe index witnessed Fortran and Kotlin secure a stable spot within the top 20, replacing R and Perl. Described as a robust number-cruncher, Fortran stands alongside Kotlin, known for its competition with Java. Moreover, Dart and TypeScript have been listed as potential candidates likely to penetrate Tiobe's top 20 for 2024.
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