The Scala programming language has for the first time hit the top 30 of the TIOBE index in April this year. The TIOBE index measures the popularity of programming languages by counting searches for the respective programming language in the most popular search engines. In April 2009, Scala searches were tracked at 0.237% of all searches which places it at rank 28. This means it is already ahead of other functional languages such as Haskell, Erlang amd Caml. The TIOBE track record is an indicator of Scala’s growing popularity. Scala entered the TIOBE index in early 2008 and appeared in the Top 50 for the first time in the fourth quarter of 2008.