2020年8月编程语言排行榜（TIOBE Index for August 2020）

August Headline: Holiday season in the programming language world

This month nothing much happened in the TIOBE index. The programming language R continues to rise and is on schedule to become TIOBE's programming language of the year 2020. It is also interesting to follow the on-going fight for position #10 in the TIOBE index between Go, Swift and SQL. Swift lost 2 positions this month (from #10 to #12). SQL took over and is back in the top 10 this time. Also worth noting is Groovy's re-entrance in the TIOBE index top 20 at the expense of Scratch and the fact that Hack entered the top 50 at position #44. - Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software

The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.