There are only 2 months left before TIOBE will announce the programming language of the year 2012. Objective-C crossed the 10% border for the first time this month and continues to rise. Other mobile phone application languages such as C, C++ and Java are not rising fast enough to compete seriously with Objective-C. Another possible competitor for the award, C#, shows a strong dip this year for some unknown reason. So nothing seems to stop Objective-C to win 2 consecutive years in a row.
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. The
popular search engines 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. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.
