From InfoWorld: Once-faltering Java is beginning to run away with the Tiobe language popularity index, with the language getting a shot in the arm from last year's Java 8 release.
Previously mired in second place behind the C language for more than a year, Java resumed the top spot in the Tiobe index in April and continues to put distance between itself and C.
"Java is now almost 4.5 percent ahead of the rest of the pack," a report accompanying this month's index, posted Thursday, said. "We have to go back to 2008 to see such a big difference between Java and the number 2 of the Tiobe index. Java version 8 is clearly a success. This is mainly thanks to the functional programming idiom that has been added to this latest version."
Tiobe bases its index on a formula that looks at searches on specific languages in indexes like Google, Bing, Wikipedia, and Yahoo. Specifically, Tiobe calculates the number of skilled engineers, courses and third-party vendors pertinent to a language. Java this month received a 19.274 rating this month, while C was in second place with a 14.732 percent rating. Last month, the margin between the two was just a bit more than 1.5 percentage points, with a 17.728 percent rating for Java and 16.147 percent.
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