Go language rises in Tiobe popularity index [Video]

Google-developed Go has reached an all time high ranking of seventh in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

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The Google-built Go language has reached an all time high position in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, ranking seventh in the November 2024 edition of the index.

While Go already had cracked Tiobe’s top 10, the language had never ranked higher than eighth. “What makes Go unique in the top 10 is that Go programs are fast and easy to deploy while the language is easy to learn,” said Paul Jansen, CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe. Although the Python language is similarly easy to learn, it is not fast, and deployment for larger Python programs is fragile due to dependencies on all kinds of versioned libraries in the environment, Jansen said. And if compared to the Rust language, Go is a bit slower, but Go programs are much easier …