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 | Python | – | 32.903 | 1 | 33.691 |
| 2 | Javascript | – | 19.098 | 2 | 19.052 |
| 3 | C | – | 12.894 | 3 | 13.019 |
| 4 | Java | – | 11.573 | 4 | 10.728 |
| 5 | PHP | – | 8.747 | 5 | 9.561 |
| 6 | SQL | – | 5.864 | 6 | 5.401 |
| 7 | C# | – | 1.741 | 7 | 1.665 |
| 8 | C++ | – | 1.165 | 8 | 1.444 |
| 9 | R | – | 1.087 | 9 | 0.840 |
| 10 | Swift | ↑ | 0.676 | 11 | 0.543 |
| 11 | TypeScript | ↓ | 0.575 | 10 | 0.548 |
| 12 | Ruby | – | 0.573 | 12 | 0.506 |
| 13 | Scala | – | 0.511 | 13 | 0.499 |
| 14 | Objective-C | – | 0.407 | 14 | 0.421 |
| 15 | Go | – | 0.379 | 15 | 0.358 |
| 16 | Kotlin | – | 0.338 | 16 | 0.358 |
| 17 | Matlab | – | 0.295 | 17 | 0.254 |
| 18 | Delphi | – | 0.213 | 18 | 0.237 |
| 19 | Perl | ↑ | 0.193 | 20 | 0.162 |
| 20 | Cobol | ↓ | 0.152 | 19 | 0.168 |
| 21 | VBA | – | 0.142 | 21 | 0.145 |
| 22 | Groovy | ↑ | 0.133 | 23 | 0.084 |
| 23 | Visual Basic | ↓ | 0.119 | 22 | 0.114 |
| 24 | Rust | ↑ | 0.069 | 25 | 0.058 |
| 25 | Scratch | ↑ | 0.065 | 26 | 0.051 |
| 26 | Dart | ↓ | 0.063 | 24 | 0.067 |
| 27 | Julia | ↑ | 0.012 | 28 | 0.010 |
| 28 | Clojure | ↓ | 0.008 | 27 | 0.010 |
| 29 | Lua | – | 0.003 | 29 | 0.003 |
| 30 | Haskell | – | 0.003 | 30 | 0.003 |
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