{"id":1204582,"date":"2023-11-18T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204582"},"modified":"2023-11-18T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T02:59:00","slug":"kotlin-keeps-climbing-tiobes-programming-language-popularity-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204582","title":{"rendered":"Kotlin Keeps Climbing TIOBE&#039;s Programming Language Popularity Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous reader shared this report from InfoWorld:<\/p>\n<p>JetBrains&#8217; Kotlin language, a Java rival endorsed by Google for Android mobile development, continues to scale up Tiobe&#8217;s index of language popularity, reaching the 15th spot in the November 2023 rankings&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Software quality services company Tiobe cites Kotlin advantages including interoperability with Java and unrivaled Android accommodations as reasons for the language&#8217;s rise. Kotlin, Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen said, also fits in with a modern programming culture of expressive languages that have a strong type system and avoid null pointer exceptions by design. &#8220;Based on my experience, I am pretty sure Kotlin can reach a top 10 position,&#8221; Jansen said. It remains to be seen if it can ever scale as high as a top four slot, he added&#8230;<br \/>\nIn the rival Pypl Popularity of Programming languages index this month, Kotlin was ranked 13th with a 1.76% share, having slipped slightly year-over-year. <\/p>\n<p>Kotlin&#8217;s rank on the TIOBE index rose three positions in the last month \u2014 after rising two positions the month before. TIOBE&#8217;s CEO says the language has now achieved its highest ranking ever on the index, surpassing 2017&#8217;s &#8220;first wave of Kotlin popularity&#8230;when Google announced first class support for Kotlin on Android.&#8221;<br \/>\nRust now ranks #20 on the index, behind Delphi\/Object Pascal, Swift, Ruby, and R. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s TIOBE November rankings for top-20 most popular programming languages:<\/p>\n<p>PythonCC++JavaC#JavaScriptPHPVisual BasicSQLAssembly LanguageScratchFortranGoMATLABKotlinDelphi\/Object PascalSwiftRubyRRust<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Kotlin+Keeps+Climbing+TIOBE's+Programming+Language+Popularity+Index%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F18%2F0227230%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/twitter_icon_large-659.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F11%2F18%2F0227230%2Fkotlin-keeps-climbing-tiobes-programming-language-popularity-index%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/facebook_icon_large-330.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/18\/0227230\/kotlin-keeps-climbing-tiobes-programming-language-popularity-index?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/11\/18\/0227230\/kotlin-keeps-climbing-tiobes-programming-language-popularity-index?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kotlin Keeps Climbing TIOBE&#8217;s Programming Language Popularity Index<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous reader shared this report from InfoWorld: JetBrains&#8217; Kotlin language, a Java rival endorsed by Google for Android mobile development, continues to scale up Tiobe&#8217;s index of language popularity, reaching the 15th spot in the November 2023 rankings&#8230; Software &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1204582\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1204582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}