August headline : Python is Programming Language of the mid-year
Python has the strongest growth trends in the last 12 months, and is the programming language of the mid-year, according to the PYPL index.
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google : the more a specific language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. It is a leading indicator. The raw data comes from Google Trends, so that anyone can verify it, or make the analysis for his own country or other languages.
If you believe in collective wisdom, the PyPL Popularity of Language index can help you decide which language to study, or which one to use in a new software project. Click on a language in the table below to see the raw data.
| Position Aug 2013 |
Position
Aug 2012
| Delta in position | Programming language | Share in Aug2013 | Twelve month trends |
| 1 | 1 | Java | 27.2 % | -0.9 % | |
| 2 | 2 | PHP | 14.3 % | -0.5 % | |
| 3 | 3 | C# | 9.8 % | +0.6 % | |
| 4 | 6 |  | Python | 9.8 % | +1.8 % |
| 5 | 4 |  | C++ | 9.1 % | -0.6 % |
| 6 | 5 | | C | 8.5 % | -1.3 % |
| 7 | 7 | Javascript | 7.8 % | +1.1 % | |
| 8 | 8 | Objective-C | 5.6 % | +0.7 % | |
| 9 | 9 | Visual Basic | 3.2 % | -0.6 % | |
| 10 | 10 | Ruby | 2.8 % | +0.1 % | |
| © 2013 Pierre Carbonnelle | |||||
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