The Ada programming language, which is over 40 years old, continues to be in the top ten most popular languages according to Tiobe, leaving behind modern trending developments such as Rust, Kotlin, and Julia.
The Ada programming language, which is over 40 years old, continues to be in the top ten most popular languages according to Tiobe, leaving behind modern trending developments such as Rust, Kotlin, and Julia.
According to InfoWorld, Ada has risen to 10th place in the July update of the Tiobe Programming Community Index, tying it with Delphi/Object Pascal. This is further confirmation that the so-called «eternal» languages are still actively used, especially in critical industries.
This is a monthly ranking of programming language popularity, based on an analysis of the number of professionals, training courses, and search queries across over 20 sources, including Google, Wikipedia, Amazon, and Bing. It does not measure technical quality, but rather provides an idea of the level of community interest in a particular language.
Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen notes that the top three, namely Python, C++ and C, remain stable. However, at the bottom of the ranking, there is a constant struggle between the old languages: Visual Basic, SQL, Fortran, Ada, Perl, Delphi. At the same time, new players have not yet broken into the top 10. «Where are Rust, Kotlin, Dart, Julia? It seems that the old languages are still «in fashion», «said Jansen.
In his opinion, Ada has the best chance of maintaining its position among other «retro» languages, because in the face of increasingly stringent security requirements, it is ideally suited for systems programming in critical areas.
Here’s what the top 10 languages look like according to Tiobe’s July ranking:
For comparison, in the alternative Pypl ranking, which evaluates the popularity of languages based on Google search queries, Rust, although it made it into the top 10, took only tenth place, and Ada is not mentioned there at all.
These data once again confirm: stability, provenness, and focus on specific areas still matter more than fashion and novelty.
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