Top 100 Programming Languages Popularity Index

We monitor everything that's posted on Reddit, HackerNews & Dev.to.
Based on that data, we have compiled our list of the most popular programming languages.

Top 100 Programming Languages
by social mentions

Rank
Today
Change
Rank
2024 Mar
Programming Language
Rating
1 2 17.56%
2 1 15.67%
3 - 3 11.33%
4 ↑↑ 6
Go
9.53%
5 ↑↑ 7 6.91%
6 5
C
5.13%
7 ↓↓↓ 4
C++
4.93%
8 ↑↑ 10 3.06%
9 ↑↑ 11 2.87%
10 ↓↓ 8
C#
2.47%
11 ↓↓ 9 2.31%
12 ↑↑↑ 15 2.11%
13 12 1.63%
14 - 14
PHP
1.43%
15 ↑↑ 17 0.90%
16 ↑↑ 18
CSS
0.88%
17 16 0.75%
18 ↓↓ 5 13
Lua
0.62%
19 ↑↑↑ 22
Vue
0.46%
20 19 0.44%
21 ↑↑ 21 42
HCL
0.42%
22 ↑↑ 19 41
Zig
0.39%
23 ↑↑ 4 27 0.37%
24 ↑↑ 6 30 0.36%
25 26 0.31%
26 ↓↓ 24 0.30%
27 ↓↓ 7 20 0.30%
28 ↑↑ 4 32 0.30%
29 28
Nix
0.28%
30 ↑↑ 14 44 0.26%
31 ↓↓ 8 23 0.23%
32 ↑↑↑ 35 0.23%
33 ↓↓ 4 29 0.22%
34 ↓↓ 9 25 0.22%
35 ↑↑ 37 0.21%
36 ↑↑ 4 40
TeX
0.20%
37 ↓↓↓ 34 0.20%
38 ↓↓ 5 33 0.20%
39 ↑↑ 4 43
MDX
0.19%
40 ↓↓ 19 21 0.17%
41 ↑↑ 7 48 0.17%
42 ↓↓ 4 38 0.15%
43 ↑↑ 35 78 0.11%
44 ↑↑↑ 47 0.10%
45 ↑↑ 30 75 0.09%
46 ↑↑ 67 113 0.09%
47 ↑↑ 11 58 0.09%
48 ↑↑ 53 101 0.09%
49 ↓↓ 10 39
Nim
0.09%
50 ↑↑ 4 54 0.09%
51 ↑↑ 18 69 0.08%
52 ↑↑ 12 64 0.07%
53 ↑↑ 31 84
Elm
0.07%
54 ↑↑↑ 57
F#
0.07%
55 ↑↑ 19 74 0.06%
56 ↑↑ 105 161 0.06%
57 ↓↓ 12 45
R
0.06%
58 ↓↓ 6 52 0.06%
59 ↓↓ 8 51 0.06%
60 ↓↓ 7 53 0.06%
61 ↓↓ 6 55 0.05%
62 ↑↑ 35 97 0.05%
63 ↓↓ 4 59 0.05%
64 ↑↑ 18 82 0.05%
65 ↓↓ 19 46 0.04%
66 ↑↑ 23 89 0.04%
67 ↑↑ 13 80 0.04%
68 ↓↓ 32 36 0.04%
69 ↑↑ 137 206 0.04%
70 ↑↑ 6 76 0.04%
71 ↑↑ 12 83
V
0.04%
72 ↓↓ 41 31 0.04%
73 ↓↓ 12 61 0.03%
74 ↑↑ 25 99 0.03%
75 ↑↑ 46 121
Coq
0.03%
76 ↑↑ 32 108 0.03%
77 ↑↑ 29 106
Ada
0.03%
78 ↑↑ 31 109
EJS
0.03%
79 ↓↓ 9 70
D
0.03%
80 ↑↑ 27 107 0.03%
81 ↑↑ 21 102 0.03%
82 ↑↑↑ 85 0.03%
83 ↑↑ 32 115 0.03%
84 ↑↑ 73 157 0.02%
85 ↑↑ 65 150 0.02%
86 ↑↑ 19 105 0.02%
87 ↓↓ 15 72
jq
0.02%
88 ↑↑ 22 110 0.02%
89 90 0.02%
90 ↑↑ 8 98 0.02%
91 ↓↓ 28 63 0.02%
92 ↑↑ 46 138 0.02%
93 ↓↓ 20 73 0.02%
94 ↑↑ 22 116 0.02%
95 ↑↑ 29 124 0.02%
96 ↑↑ 56 152 0.02%
97 ↓↓ 6 91 0.02%
98 ↓↓↓ 95 0.01%
99 ↓↓ 20 79 0.01%
100 - - 0.01%

We have used 94,002 mentions to prepare this list (collecting data since Dec 2020). The ranking is updated every day at midnight - Pacific Time (US & Canada).

These are all of the other languages that didn't make it to the top:
Ren'Py, AutoHotkey, Forth, PureScript, GLSL, Jsonnet, Dhall, PLSQL, Fennel, XSLT, ColdFusion, Tree-sitter Query, Node.js, MLIR, Standard ML, Arc, Tcl, Less, Mathematica, NSIS, just, Ballerina, BASIC, ANTLR, Nunjucks, Adblock Filter List, Cython, Brainfuck, Stylus, Wikitext, OpenEdge ABL, PostScript, TSQL, Circom, HolyC, Awk, Janet, SVG, Visual Basic 6.0, F*, VBScript, BitBake, Open Policy Agent, CUE, QML, JSON, Factor, BQN, Pug, Visual Basic .NET, Liquid, VBA, ShaderLab, Meson, VimL, TLA, CodeQL, Processing, Diff, Riot, AGS Script, Rich Text Format, ActionScript, COBOL, APL, Sass, AppleScript, Idris, Hack, CartoCSS, sed, SuperCollider, ObjectScript, Sage, POV-Ray SDL, SQL, Metal, Text, Roc, templ, Svelte, TypeScript, Python, PLpgSQL, reStructuredText, PlantUML, hoon, RPM Spec, Befunge, Luau, SMT, Wren, Pkl, MoonBit, MoonScript, Nushell, WGSL, Hy, Modula-2, YARA, Earthly, Game Maker Language, Monkey C, Max, PEG.js, Modelica, KiCad Layout, RPC, Fluent, GDB, Toit, JetBrains MPS, XQuery, Perl 6, Dylan, Limbo, Move, Terra, Puppet, Reason, JavaScript, Rust, XS, G-code, Beef, AutoIt, Chapel, Classic ASP, NCL, HLSL, RobotFramework, M4, Cairo, Apex, Agda, SaltStack, Smali, LSL, REALbasic, Twig, Haml, Bluespec, UnrealScript, SRecode Template, Red, ASP, DataWeave, CWeb, Zeek, Nearley, Xonsh, Promela, Mercury, Nimrod