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C# Chasing 2021 TIOBE Index ‘Programming Language of the Year’ Award
TIOBE Index, one of the most prominent trackers of programming language popularity, says C# is in the running to be named language of the year next month.
This prize is not awarded to the most popular language (Python claimed this crown), but rather to the one that shows the biggest increase in its rating over the year.
For C#, that’s 2.21% in the December report, putting it well ahead of the pack.
“At the moment, C# is by far the most likely candidate for this title,” said Paul Jansen, CEO of TIOBE Software. “Interestingly, C# has never won the ‘TIOBE Index Programming Language of the Year’ award in its 21 years of existence, although it has been in the top 10. over the past 2 decades. Let’s see what happens next month!”
Indeed, over the past four years, Python and C have alternately shared this honor.
After peaking in 2012, C# took a nose dive for a few years before picking up the last couple, as this trail of C# over the years shows (C# is the boldest purple line):
This cover brought it to No. 5 on the popularity list, as this chart shows:
And here is the list of language of the year winners:
“Other interesting moves in the TIOBE index this month are Swift (from #14 to #10), R (from #15 to #11) and Kotlin (from #33 to #26) “, said Jansen.
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