{"id":7976,"date":"2021-07-07T08:57:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T12:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7976"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:50:43","slug":"c-java-and-python-tops-list-of-best-programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/c-java-and-python-tops-list-of-best-programming-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"C, Java and Python Tops List of Best Programming Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the most recent index ranking for the best programming languages published by TIOBE Software, C comes in first with an 11.62% rating, while second-placed Java comes in at 11.17% and Python comes in third with 10.95%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the rankings show several shake-ups, C++ and C# came in fourth and fifth, respectively, with ratings of 8.01% and 4.83%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on the current ranking, Paul Jansen, CEO of TIOBE, said: &#8220;It is interesting to see that these 3 languages are getting closer than ever before. The difference between position 1 and position 3 is only 0.67%. This means that the next few months will be exciting.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ranking for July has changed slightly since last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since July 2020, No. 18 Perl and No. 19 MATLAB has dropped four places respectively, and Delphi\/Object Pascal jumps 10 spots, landing in the top 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TIOBE uses metrics such as searches on Google, Amazon, YouTube and Bing to calculate the rankings.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/top-programming-languages-c-and-java-remain-tops-as-python-surges\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in TechRepublic.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the best programming languages published by TIOBE Software C, Java and Python make the top spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions\/7999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}