Most Popular?
There are a number of ways to measure the popularity of a programming language, for example, based on the number of:
- New applications written in the language
- Existing applications written in the language
- Developers that use the language primarily
- Developers that use the language ever
- Web searches
- Available jobs that require skills in the language
- Developers’ favorites
The following surveys attempt to rank which programming languages are most popular, each using a different measure:
Tiobe.com
| Position Jan 2011 | Position Jan 2010 | Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Jan 2011 | Delta Jan 2010 | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  | Java | 17.773% | +0.29% | A |
| 2 | 2 | | C | 15.822% | -0.39% | A |
| 3 | 4 |  | C++ | 8.783% | -0.93% | A |
| 4 | 3 |  | PHP | 7.835% | -2.24% | A |
| 5 | 7 | | Python | 6.265% | +1.81% | A |
| 6 | 6 | | C# | 6.226% | +0.46% | A |
| 7 | 5 | | (Visual) Basic | 5.867% | -1.49% | A |
| 8 | 12 | | Objective-C | 3.011% | +1.63% | A |
| 9 | 8 | | Perl | 2.857% | -0.71% | A |
| 10 | 10 | | Ruby | 1.784% | -0.69% | A |
| 11 | 9 | | JavaScript | 1.589% | -1.12% | A |
| 12 | 11 | | Delphi | 1.287% | -1.10% | A |
| 13 | 18 | | Lisp | 1.109% | +0.53% | A |
| 14 | 17 | | Pascal | 0.919% | +0.29% | A |
| 15 | - | | Assembly | 0.864% | +0.86% | A-- |
| 16 | 14 | | SAS | 0.771% | -0.04% | A-- |
| 17 | 30 | | Transact-SQL | 0.758% | +0.38% | A |
| 18 | 33 | | RPG (OS/400) | 0.717% | +0.40% | A- |
| 19 | 20 | | MATLAB | 0.706% | +0.17% | A-- |
| 20 | 28 | | Ada | 0.679% | +0.29% | B |
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