The PHP programming language has fallen to an all-time low in the long-running TIOBE index of programming language popularity. It currently ranks 17th, lower than assembly language, Ruby, Swift, Scratch, and MATLAB. InfoWorld reports: When Tiobe Index was launched in 2001, PHP was on its way to becoming the standard language for building websites, said Paul Jansen, CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe. states. PHP even reached the top three spots in the index many times between 2006 and 2010, where he ranked third. However, PHP's popularity waned as competing web development frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, Django, and React emerged in other languages. “The primary driving languages behind these new frameworks were Ruby, Python, and most notably JavaScript,” Jansen said in a statement accompanying the index. “In addition to this contest, we found several security issues in PHP. As a result, PHP had to reinvent itself.” Today, PHP still has a strong presence on small and medium-sized websites. It is the language used by the WordPress web content management system. “PHP certainly isn't gone, but its glory days seem to be over,” Jansen said. A note on his rival, the Pypl Popularity of Programming Language Index, claims that the TIOBE Index is “a lagging indicator.” Count the number of his web pages with that language name. ” So while “Objective-C” ranks 30th in his TIOBE index (one spot above Classic Visual Basic), “Who reads Objective-C web pages?” Google According to trend data, almost no one. ” In TIOBE's index, Fortran currently ranks 10th. On the other hand, PHP ranks 7th in his Pypl (based on search frequency for language tutorials). TIOBE's top 10 is PythonCC++ JavaC#JavaScriptGoVisual BasicSQLFortran His next two languages (11th and 12th) are Delphi/Object Pascal and Assembly Language.
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