Interactive: The Top Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum

Interactive: The Top Programming Languages - IEEE Spectrum:

This app ranks the popularity of dozens of programming languages. You can filter them by listing only those most relevant to particular sectors, such as web or embedded programming. Rankings are created by weighting and combining 12 metrics from 10 sources. We offer preset weightings for those interested in what's trending or most looked for by employers, or you can take complete control and create your own custom ranking by adjusting each metric's weighting yourself. (Read about our method and sources)

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Types

Spectrum Ranking

1.

Java

100.0

2.

C

99.2

3.

C++

95.5

4.

Python

93.4

5.

C#

92.2

6.

PHP

84.6

7.

Javascript

84.3

8.

Ruby

78.6

9.

R

74.0

10.

MATLAB

72.6

11.

SQL

70.5

12.

PERL

70.1

13.

Assembly

69.7

14.

HTML

66.1

15.

Visual Basic

64.9

16.

Objective-C

64.0

17.

Scala

62.5

18.

Arduino

62.0

19.

Shell

62.0

20.

Go

60.9

21.

Processing

51.3

22.

D

49.7

23.

Lua

47.4

24.

Fortran

46.1

25.

Haskell

44.9

26.

LISP

44.1

27.

VHDL

41.6

28.

Delphi

41.1

29.

Prolog

37.8

30.

Clojure

36.5

31.

ASP.NET

36.4

32.

SAS

34.0

33.

Verilog

32.9

34.

Erlang

31.2

35.

Ada

30.8

36.

Cobol

29.5

37.

Scheme

27.3

38.

CoffeeScript

25.2

39.

Actionscript

23.8

40.

ABAP

23.7

41.

TCL

21.1

42.

Apex Code

19.9

43.

Ocaml

17.5

44.

Ladder Logic

16.9

45.

J

12.4

46.

Eiffel

8.0

47.

Forth

2.4

48.

Scilab

0.2

49.

NetLogo

0.0