SoftwareEngineer.live Programming Language Popularity index is updated weekly giving software engineers a current view of what is happening in the world of programming languages.
The index is calculated based on job posts (85% weight) and tech questions (15% weight). Data is based on only the last 30 days.
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| Rank | Language | Movement | Share | Rank Last week |
Share Last week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Javascript | – | 24.490 | 1 | 26.820 |
| 2 | Java | – | 22.133 | 2 | 19.521 |
| 3 | Python | – | 13.516 | 3 | 14.789 |
| 4 | SQL | – | 8.506 | 4 | 7.434 |
| 5 | PHP | ↑ | 7.709 | 6 | 6.459 |
| 6 | C++ | ↓ | 5.595 | 5 | 6.760 |
| 7 | C | – | 5.274 | 7 | 5.041 |
| 8 | C# | – | 3.939 | 8 | 4.266 |
| 9 | R | – | 1.296 | 9 | 1.184 |
| 10 | Go | ↑ | 0.988 | 11 | 1.145 |
| 11 | Ruby | ↑ | 0.971 | 13 | 0.747 |
| 12 | Swift | ↑ | 0.816 | 14 | 0.718 |
| 13 | TypeScript | ↓ | 0.780 | 12 | 1.035 |
| 14 | Kotlin | ↓ | 0.723 | 10 | 1.159 |
| 15 | Scala | – | 0.618 | 15 | 0.583 |
| 16 | Perl | – | 0.549 | 16 | 0.461 |
| 17 | Matlab | – | 0.476 | 17 | 0.400 |
| 18 | Cobol | ↑ | 0.333 | 19 | 0.286 |
| 19 | Objective-C | ↓ | 0.304 | 18 | 0.300 |
| 20 | VBA | – | 0.212 | 20 | 0.195 |
| 21 | Visual Basic | – | 0.166 | 21 | 0.155 |
| 22 | Rust | – | 0.107 | 22 | 0.134 |
| 23 | Delphi | ↑ | 0.103 | 26 | 0.060 |
| 24 | Groovy | ↓ | 0.097 | 23 | 0.123 |
| 25 | Dart | – | 0.097 | 25 | 0.069 |
| 26 | Scratch | ↓ | 0.084 | 24 | 0.071 |
| 27 | Clojure | – | 0.044 | 27 | 0.033 |
| 28 | Julia | ↑ | 0.034 | 29 | 0.020 |
| 29 | Haskell | ↓ | 0.031 | 28 | 0.032 |
| 30 | Lua | – | 0.008 | 30 | 0.004 |
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