The Google-built Go language has reached an all time excessive place within the Tiobe index of programming language recognition, rating seventh within the November 2024 version of the index.
Whereas Go already had cracked Tiobe’s high 10, the language had by no means ranked increased than eighth. “What makes Go distinctive within the high 10 is that Go packages are quick and simple to deploy whereas the language is simple to study,” mentioned Paul Jansen, CEO of software program high quality providers vendor Tiobe. Though the Python language is equally straightforward to study, it’s not quick, and deployment for bigger Python packages is fragile as a result of dependencies on every kind of versioned libraries within the surroundings, Jansen mentioned. And if in comparison with the Rust language, Go is a bit slower, however Go packages are a lot simpler to grasp, he added. Rust ranks 14th on this month’s index whereas Python is first total.
The following hurdle for Go is to surpass JavaScript, which is presently ranked sixth. Whereas JavaScript will probably be a troublesome language to cross, contemplating its ubiquity in software program growth, Go may accomplish that in three years if traits proceed, Jansen mentioned.
