[ TIOBE Index for September 2022 ]
September Headline: Julia is getting close to the TIOBE index top 20
The Julia programming language is only 0.05% away from a top 20 position. Julia is designed for numerical analysis and computational science. There are many competing languages in that field. So what makes Julia stand out? Julia beats Matlab because it is much more modern and it can be used free of charge. Furthermore, Julia beats Python and R because it is much faster. Since there is a huge demand in the number crunching and modeling field, Julia has a serious chance to enter the top 20 in the near future. Note that the language Rust has also been knocking on the top 20 door for quite some time, but did not succeed so far. Time will tell whether Julia will endure the same fate.
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. It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
