Tiobe has named JavaScript as the language of the year for 2014 because it was the biggest mover on their index, jumping from a 1.569 percent rating a year ago to a 3.274 percent rating now. “Swift and R appeared to be the main candidates for the title, but due to a deep fall of Objective-C this month, a lot of other languages took advantage of this and surpassed these two candidates at the last moment,” Tiobe said. Other big movers included PL/SQL and Perl.
The top of the chart looks like this for January:
- C (16.703 percent)
- Java (15.528 percent)
- Objective-C (6.953 percent)
- C++ (6.705 percent)
- C# (5.045 percent)
- PHP (3.784 percent)
- JavaScript (3.274)
- Python (2.613 percent)
- Perl (2.256 percent)
- PL/SQL (2.014 percent)