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Survey: Java Losing Popularity Among Developers
The downward trend in the use of Java continues, according to Tiobe Software's latest monthly assessment of programming languages, and the company's Paul Jansen believes Java is facing a long-term slide. The October Tiobe Programming Community Index estimates that 17.9 percent of developers used Java in September, down from 18.8 percent in August.
Although Java remains the top language, the C language, with 17.7 percent of users, could take over the top spot next month. With a few exceptions in mid 2004 and 2005, and a couple of months last year, Java has held the top spot in the index since 2001. "This downward trend is probably caused by the fact that the Java language evolves too slowly compared to other languages, such as C#," Jansen says.
Java received its first major upgrade in more than five years when Oracle released Java Standard Edition (SE) 7 in July, and Java SE 8 is due in 2013. C++, PHP, C#, Objective-C, Visual Basic, Python, Perl, and JavaScript rounded out the top 10 languages on Tiobe's list.
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