# C\+\+ — programming language of the year 2022\. What about other languages?

Overtaking Python, C\+\+ became the TIOBE's language of 2022\. It outscored Rust, C\#, Go and others by a large margin\. Don't you find this weird? Well, let's figure this out\.

![1026_TIOBE_2022/image1.png](https://import.viva64.com/docx/blog/1026_TIOBE_2022/image1.png)

The rating we're talking about is based on the [TIOBE](https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/) index\. Here's the table of the 20 most popular languages for January 2023:

![1026_TIOBE_2022/image2.png](https://import.viva64.com/docx/blog/1026_TIOBE_2022/image2.png)

Here's the main question: why is C\+\+ the language of 2022? According to the table, Python takes the first place in the rating\.

Here's the answer: TIOBE chose the winner by the growth of the language popularity\. In this regard, C\+\+ is ahead of the curve\. 

Here's the top five leaders in popularity growth: 

* C\+\+ \(\+4\.62 %\)
* C \(\+3\.82 %\)
* Python \(\+2\.78 %\)
* Java \(\+1\.55 %\)
* JavaScript \(\+0\.78 %\) 

TIOBE gives several reasons explaining C\+\+'s growing popularity\. Although C\+\+ is an OOP language, it provides excellent performance\. Moreover, ISO constantly releases new standards\. TIOBE points out that the language started going uphill since the C\+\+11 publication\. They also suppose that C\+\+20 which introduced modules will probably lift C\+\+ further in the TIOBE index in the next few years\.

Here are a few more curious results from the TIOBE index:

* Rust entered the Top 20 again \(from \#26 to \#18\);
* F\# jumped from position \#74 to \#33;
* Lua jumped 6 positions from \#30 to \#24;
* Kotlin jumped from \#29 to \#25\. 



Here are some thoughts that crossed my mind after viewing the table and reading the article:

* Visual Basic takes position \#6 — wait, what?\! It's amusing to compare the absolute rating of VB \(4\.64%\) with Go \(1\.14%\) and Rust \(0\.61%\)\.
* It's a pity that C\# gets only \+0\.05%\. That's a scanty increase \(especially when comparing it with Java\)\.
* I feel happy for F\# — it made a great jump\!
* Some people are skeptical about TIOBE ratings because of the way they calculate the popularity of languages\. And that's a fair point\. The Visual Basic position in this index kind of suggests that their algorithm of choosing a language is not perfect\. Well, perhaps C\# has actually become more popular, who knows\.
* As Bjarne Stroustrup said: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses\."
* In case you're curious to learn about the most interesting bugs in projects written on different programming languages, here you are:
  * [Top 10 bugs found in C\# projects in 2022](https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/csharp/1020/)
  * [Top 10 bugs found in C\+\+ projects in 2022](https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/cpp/1021/)



What are your thoughts on the rating?