The 2016 Top Programming Languages

>C is still #1, but big data is the real winner

Give me a break. Big data is a wonderful buzz word that means everything and nothing. It also has no relevance to the language. You can write awesome big data apps in C or Java or WingDings just as you could anything else. All it takes is a programmer who knows how to choose the right tool and the right constructs for the job.

COBOL!! I'm with jcbeard, "big data is the real winner"?!?!. Let me tell IEEE something, if you want to process Big Data, you are doing it in COBOL, and you've been doing it in COBOL for decades.

Interesting to note the major differences between IEEE's and TIOBE's lists. Apache Groovy is in TIOBE's top 20, but nowhere in IEEE's top 48. Arduino is in IEEE's top 20, but nowhere in TIOBE's top 50.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programm...

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/tiobe_index

At first I just looked at the graph and was surprised that Swift didn't make top 10 but then actually read the article to see the author mention it's technically #11, right behind Go. Think Swift will make top 10 next year?

It is interesting that Go has caught on that much.