The official website of the TIOBE company, which specializes in software quality control, has an updated rating of programming languages according to the data for the current month.
The TIOB rating clearly demonstrates the popularity of modern programming languages and is updated once a month. It is built on data collected around the world about the number of qualified engineers, available training courses, and third-party solutions that enhance the capabilities of the language and make it easier to use. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ranking. At the same time, it is important to note that the TIOBE index does not say which language is worse or better, or which language has more lines of code, but can be used to plan the study of a language based on data on its popularity and demand in the world, as well as to select the language for creating a new product by you or your company.
C++ reclaimed third place this month, dropping Python down a position. This is by no means a sign that Python is in decline, because despite this, Python breaks all records in popularity almost every month. It's just that the demand for C++ has also grown over the past year. However, it is still far from the peak of its glory at the beginning of this century, when its market share was more than 15%. At that time, delays in the release of a new standard, C++0x (working title C++11), along with the traditional complexity of this language and security concerns, significantly reduced the popularity of C++. Since the release of C++2011 in 11, the new standard has made the language much simpler, safer, and more expressive. It took several years for the standard to be fully accepted by the community and support added to all popular compilers. Now that the C++11, C++14, and C++17 standards are fully supported by GCC, Clang, and Visual Studio, C++'s popularity is being rekindled by its ability to write low-level code as quickly as possible.
Source: 3dnews.ru