Tiobe发布了2012年4月份的编程语言排行榜，Java的持续下滑趋势还在继续，终于跌到了C的下面。尽管受Android平台的大受欢迎的影响，未来Java不会出现更大幅度的下跌，不过，本月，它还是被C超越了。排名第三的仍为C++。
除此之外，Visual FoxPro (#42)、Scala (#45)和Alice (#48) 进入了排行榜Top50。
4月Tiobe编程语言排行Top20：
| 2012年4月 | 2011年4月 | 编程语言 | 市场份额 | 同比变更 | 等级 |
| 1 | 2 | C | 17.56% | 1.39% | A |
| 2 | 1 | Java | 17.03% | -2.02% | A |
| 3 | 3 | C++ | 8.90% | -0.33% | A |
| 4 | 8 | Objective-C | 8.24% | 3.85% | A |
| 5 | 4 | C# | 7.35% | 0.16% | A |
| 6 | 5 | PHP | 5.29% | -1.30% | A |
| 7 | 7 | (Visual) Basic | 4.96% | 0.28% | A |
| 8 | 6 | Python | 3.67% | -1.27% | A |
| 9 | 10 | JavaScript | 2.88% | 1.37% | A |
| 10 | 9 | Perl | 2.39% | 0.40% | A |
| 11 | 11 | Ruby | 1.51% | 0.03% | A |
| 12 | 24 | PL/SQL | 1.37% | 0.92% | A |
| 13 | 13 | Delphi/Object Pascal | 1.37% | 0.34% | A |
| 14 | 35 | Visual Basic .NET | 0.98% | 0.64% | A |
| 15 | 15 | Lisp | 0.95% | 0.02% | A |
| 16 | 17 | Pascal | 0.81% | 0.10% | A |
| 17 | 16 | Ada | 0.78% | 0.01% | A-- |
| 18 | 18 | Transact-SQL | 0.76% | 0.18% | A |
| 19 | 22 | Logo | 0.65% | 0.12% | B |
| 20 | 52 | NEXT-G | 0.58% | 0.35% | B |
4月Tiobe编程语言排行Top50：
| 排名 | 编程语言 | 份额 |
| 21 | Lua | 0.57% |
| 22 | MATLAB | 0.57% |
| 23 | SAS | 0.48% |
| 24 | Assembly | 0.47% |
| 25 | ActionScript | 0.41% |
| 26 | Fortran | 0.41% |
| 27 | RPG (OS/400) | 0.40% |
| 28 | Scheme | 0.40% |
| 29 | COBOL | 0.39% |
| 30 | Groovy | 0.39% |
| 31 | R | 0.38% |
| 32 | Bash | 0.37% |
| 33 | ABAP | 0.35% |
| 34 | cg | 0.34% |
| 35 | Scratch | 0.33% |
| 36 | D | 0.33% |
| 37 | Haskell | 0.29% |
| 38 | Prolog | 0.29% |
| 39 | F# | 0.28% |
| 40 | APL | 0.25% |
| 41 | Smalltalk | 0.24% |
| 42 | (Visual) FoxPro | 0.24% |
| 43 | Erlang | 0.23% |
| 44 | Awk | 0.23% |
| 45 | Scala | 0.23% |
| 46 | Forth | 0.22% |
| 47 | ML | 0.22% |
| 48 | Alice | 0.18% |
| 49 | CFML | 0.17% |
| 50 | VBScript | 0.17% |
