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."

Comments

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.

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!