# Fortran returns to top 20 TIOBE index **URL:** \ **Category:** Advocacy\ **Created:** [April 14, 2021, 7:30am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-returns-to-top-20-tiobe-index/1069 "2021-04-14T07:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 181
**Author:** ![nbehrnd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e0b2c6/32.png) [@nbehrnd](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/nbehrnd)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2024, 4:10pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-returns-to-top-20-tiobe-index/1069/181 "2024-01-07T16:10:18Z")
While updating the readings by Tiobe for January 2024 (rang 12, the eleventh month _in a row_ Fortran is listed among the top 20), I notice Jansen’s comment to review 2023 (emphases added): > For the first time in the history of the TIOBE index, C# has won the programming language of the year award. Congratulations! C# has been a top 10 player for more than 2 decades and now that it is catching up with the big 4 languages, it won the well-deserved award by being the language with the biggest uptick in one year (+1.43%). _Runners up are Scratch (+0.83%) and Fortran (+0.64%)._ C# is eating market share from Java and is getting more and more popular in domains such as web application back ends and games (thanks to Unity). C# can be used free of charge and evolves in a steady pace, making the language more expressive every new release. C# is here to stay and might even surpass Java soon. > > Apart from C#, there were a lot of interesting changes in the TIOBE index last year. _Fortran and Kotlin became permanent top 20 players replacing old-time favorites R and Perl. Fortran is very fit to crunch numbers with good libraries and remains a university favorite in lots of domains._ Kotlin is the easy to learn/write competitor of Java. Interesting question: what languages will enter the TIOBE index top 20 in 2024? This is very hard to predict. Julia touched the TIOBE index briefly in 2023, but couldn’t keep that position.\* Maturity of the Julia language and community is needed to get a second chance. […] The violin plot below can illustrate a little the evolution with readings available (each dot one record of entry 86), a doodle by a snippet of R obtained with ChatGTP: ![violon_plot](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/2X/3/3bc456ad79489136080c93d593193171dada0e71.png) \* In the present reading for January 2024, ranked at position 28. --- _[View the full topic](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/fortran-returns-to-top-20-tiobe-index/1069)._