We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

It ranks dozens of programming languages against 12 weighted data sources: Google search, Google trends, Github, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, Reddit, Career Builder, Dice, Topsy, and IEEE Xplore.

As the big programming languages battle it out for supremacy, there are always the underdogs waiting in the wings. In its 2024 report, GitHub put a spotlight on the fastest-growing languages.

Recent Trends in Programming Languages (RTPL): Trends in programming languages have always been influenced by programming paradigms, which in turn have been characterized by general computing trends.

The surprising results of Github's annual rankings of the most popular languages on its code-sharing platform show that open source is now mainstream—and the mainstream is now open source.