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Most Popular Programming Languages (30)

Ranked by objective public data. Data snapshot 2026-09-22.

📏 Ranking Criteria

Rankings are computed from the authoritative public sources listed below, weighted into a single objective index.

1
P

Python

General-purpose language born in 1991, top choice for AI and data science, perennial TIOBE number one

100
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2
J

JavaScript

Scripting language born in 1995 for web interactivity, the world's most widely used language

98.5
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3
J

Java

Released by Sun in 1995, mainstay language for enterprise backends and Android development

97
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4 C
C++

Extended from C in 1985, top choice for game engines and high-performance systems

95.5
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5 C
C

Invented in 1972, foundational language of Unix and the Linux kernel

94
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6 C
C#

Launched by Microsoft in 2000, mainstay of the .NET ecosystem, common in Unity game development

92.5
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7 T
TypeScript

Released by Microsoft in 2012, a superset adding static typing to JavaScript

91
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8 G
Go

Launched by Google in 2009, language of cloud-native projects like Docker and Kubernetes

89.5
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9 R
Rust

Started by Mozilla in 2010, memory-safe, now approved for the Linux kernel

88
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10 P
PHP

Born in 1995, powers WordPress and most dynamic websites worldwide

86.5
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11 S
Swift

Introduced by Apple in 2014, the preferred language for iOS and macOS apps

85
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12 K
Kotlin

Created by JetBrains in 2011, Google's officially designated preferred Android language

83.5
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13 R
Ruby

Invented by Yukihiro Matsumoto in 1995, elegant syntax, mother of Ruby on Rails

82
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14 S
SQL

Proposed by IBM in 1974, universal query language for relational databases

80.5
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15 D
Dart

Launched by Google in 2011, the language of Flutter cross-platform app development

79
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16 R
R

Data analysis language beloved by statisticians, with a vast CRAN ecosystem

77.5
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17 J
Julia

Released by MIT in 2012, a new language built for high-performance scientific computing

76
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18 S
Scala

Released in 2004, functional language on the JVM, Apache Spark is written in it

74.5
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19 O
Objective-C

Born in 1984, Apple's early mainstay language for iOS and macOS development

73
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20 P
Perl

Invented by Larry Wall in 1987, king of regex text processing

71.5
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21 L
Lua

Created in Brazil in 1993, lightweight embedded scripting, common in games and Roblox

70
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22 H
Haskell

Purely functional language standardized in 1990, used in academia and finance

68.5
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23 E
Elixir

Released in 2012, high-concurrency fault-tolerant language built on the Erlang VM

67
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24 S
Solidity

Designed by Gavin Wood in 2014, the language for Ethereum smart contracts

65.5
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25 M
MATLAB

Made by MathWorks, the standard tool for numerical computing in engineering and science

64
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26 A
Assembly 汇编语言

Low-level language closest to hardware, directly manipulating CPU instructions and registers

62.5
27 V
Visual Basic

Microsoft BASIC-family language, a classic choice for rapid Windows development

61
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28 F
Fortran

Released by IBM in 1957, the oldest high-level language, pioneer of scientific computing

59.5
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29 Z
Zig

Started by Andrew Kelley in 2016, a performance- and safety-focused C alternative

58
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30 D
Delphi

Released by Borland in 1995, rapid development tool for Object Pascal

56.5
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🔄 Data snapshot 2026-09-22

📚 Data Sources

This ranking is aggregated from the following authoritative sources:

TIOBE Index 编程语言排行榜 www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index Stack Overflow Developer Survey survey.stackoverflow.co GitHub Octoverse 年度报告 octoverse.github.com IEEE Spectrum Top Programming Languages spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages

About this ranking

Compiled by Ranklist from the public sources listed above. Figures are a snapshot taken on 2026-09-22, not live data.

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