C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index (businessinsider.com)

Gamoid writes: The venerable C programming language hit a 15-year low on the TIOBE Index, perhaps because more mobile- and web-friendly languages like Swift and Go are starting to eat its lunch. "The C programming language has a score of 11.303%, which is its lowest score ever since we started the TIOBE index back in 2001," writes Paul Jansen, manager of TIOBE Index. With that said, C is still the second most popular programming language in the world, behind only Java. Also worth noting as mentioned by Matt Weinberger via Business Insider, "C doesn't currently have a major corporate sponsor; Oracle makes a lot of money from Java; Apple pushes both Swift and Objective-C for building iPhone apps. But no big tech company is getting on stage and pushing C as the future of development. So C's problems could be marketing as much as anything."

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Rust will replace them all

[Anonymous Coward]

Rust will be the new language everyone uses in 2020.

Re:Rust will replace them all

[Anonymous Coward]

Nah.. It'll be jython servlets running inside a lua hypervisor that is written in javascript.

Re:problems, lol

[rtb61]

All current programming languages have major problems. They are not direct extrapolation of normal language or maths or physics languages. They use sounds like or it'll do based upon the idiosyncrasies of their programmers and they are all quite logically awful beyond their own idiosyncratic internal logic.

We need a new programming language from scratch, properly extrapolated from English, maths and physics and likely a few new custom programming specific characters which should be added to keyboards (much like English, maths and physics all have specific custom characters, not all of them on keyboards, just a few of the most used, sort of). OH yeah ma QWERTY should die in the fires of hell, rather than lazy stupid adults forcing children in the most counter intuitive fashion imaginable to learn it, why force children to pointlessesly learn their QWEs instead of ABCs or change alphabetical order and be done with it, fucking hell, why, just why.

We have K&R on PDF

[perpenso]

From TFS, "c's problems": c doesn't have "problems"; programmers who don't use c have problems.

That is actually what TIOBE measures. It counts Google searches. C programmers are smart enough that they don't need to search for answers on Google, or they use a better website, such as Stackoverflow.

We use neither google nor stack overflow, we have K&R on PDF.

Re:Rust is going to eat C's lunch

[Anne Thwacks]

2017 will be the year of Snobol!