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C++ knocks Python out of top three most popular language

jomoenginer

In the latest TIOBE Index report, there has been a recent rise of interest in the use of C++ again and I have seen this personally through multiple Embedded and Firmware job postings which ask for C++ as a primary language.  It is already popular in the Game industry and has been used in many of the NASA rovers, so it really had not gone away.  It is interesting that is has moved Python out of number 3, but not completely surprising.

 

It seems Assembly had gained some increased interest as well.

 

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/most-popular-programming-languages-c-knocks-python-out-of-top-three/

 

TIOBE Index

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

  • I started off with Algol 60, then extended Basic - extended meant it had data capture facilities, on Varian mini - then Fortran IV, Fortran V, various assemblers, MUMPS - I bet that not many of you have heard of it - which later became M and finally C/C++ but only within the Arduino IDE. Oh and I looked at Python but I couldn't think of anything useful to do with it, relevant to me,

  • in reply to dougw

    I hear ya.  It's all about the Forms.

     

    I have two words, PyQT, or even QT.

  • in reply to jomoenginer

    For me, it is all about how long it takes to complete a program. In VB you can drop in a spreadsheet OCX or a zillion other OCXes and save weeks or months of programming. I just haven't seen anything that comes close to VB for productivity. I'm not saying its the best language ever, only that I like it better than the rest.

  • in reply to dougw

      wrote:

     

    Python has some distance to go before it gets to where VB was/is.

    From my perspective, Python has surpassed VB in many respects.  Not counting VB.net, I can write and run the same Python code on multiple OS platforms as long as any OS specific considerations are accounted for such as location of files.

    Also, Python has been around longer than VB, which is a bit shocking.

  • I find these lists are useful to see what languages could be worth learning, since one language is never enough.

    C was my first 'real' language after home computer BASIC, and then C++ for my first real programming job, and for careers it is invaluable today too. Also, as much as I love C and C++, I can see that some things could never be developed in these languages in a practical time, because the amount of debugging/test effort could be huge, if it takes (say) a dozen lines to replace something that can be done in one line in a higher-level language that may exist (but having said that, I don't like Python - but have accepted it is worth learning enough of it to get by - and it is a convenient language for sharing demos/ideas with non-software-engineers too, since the Pi's popularity resulted in many people learning it).

    Also another cool thing worth keeping an eye on is frameworks and popular libraries, to see what is hot for developing applications these days. But there are so many! If someone mentions one to me in conversation, I tend to write the name down, so I can check up on it later.