TIOBE Programming Community index Jan 2014

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. Observe 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.

Jan 2014	Jan 2013	Change	Programming Language	Ratings	Change
1	1		C	17.871%	+0.02%
2	2		Java	16.499%	-0.92%
3	3		Objective-C	11.098%	+0.82%
4	4		C++	7.548%	-1.59%
5	5		C#	5.855%	-0.34%
6	6		PHP	4.627%	-0.92%
7	7		(Visual) Basic	2.989%	-1.76%
8	8		Python	2.400%	-1.77%
9	10		JavaScript	1.569%	-0.41%
10	22		Transact-SQL	1.559%	+0.98%
11	12		Visual Basic .NET	1.558%	+0.52%
12	11		Ruby	1.082%	-0.69%
13	9		Perl	0.917%	-1.35%
14	14		Pascal	0.780%	-0.15%
15	17		MATLAB	0.776%	+0.14%
16	45		F#	0.720%	+0.53%
17	21		PL/SQL	0.634%	+0.05%
18	35		D	0.627%	+0.33%
19	13		Lisp	0.604%	-0.35%
20	15		Delphi/Object Pascal	0.595%	-0.32%