The programming language that does not stop growing and that you may be interested in learning – Checkersaga

Tiobes August index throws a curious surprise and its the exponential increase in the use of the R programming language, driven by the desperate search for a vaccine for COVID-19.

There are many programming languages on the market, and it is essential to have some type of index that encompasses popularity and use so that a professional or a student in the programming niche can be guided more wisely, and the Tiobe index has a lot to say about it.

Tiobe is one of the most popular indexes in the programming market, and is based on measuring the popularity of all these languages through their searches in the main internet search engines, on the availability of jobs and the number of engineers and programmers qualified who are using it.

Well, R may not sound like much to you, but it is the protagonist of the last index of Tiobe that collects the most popular programming languages of August 2020. R has just climbed to eighth position, a considerable fact considering that it was only a year it was in the twentieth position among the most used programming languages.

The R programming language is free and open source, focused more on the subject of statistical computing and graphics, and from Tiobe they affirm that this exponential growth in the last 12 months It is because universities and research institutes have moved away from other commercial and classical statistical languages like SAS and Stata to embrace R and other open source languages like Python. Likewise, many engineers and researchers are using this programming language within data science to find a vaccine for COVID-19.

Learn a programming language It is not easy at all and it requires many years of our life, and therefore knowing how to specialize in the right one and that at the same time we like it, can assure us a job.

This means that the R programming language could end up becoming the 2020 Tiobe programming language, which is awarded to the language that achieves the highest grade increase over the course of 12 months.

The rest of the positions in the index have hardly changed, dominating the C programming language, followed by Java and Python, while other languages such as Go, Swift and SQL are fighting to enter the Top 10.

These types of indexes are essential for a programmer to specialize in those with the greatest demand for employment.

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