The LibHunt 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
2023 Mar
Programming Language
Rating
1 - 1 18.22%
2 3 11.30%
3 2 10.24%
4 - 4
C++
7.72%
5 - 5
C
6.40%
6 - 6
Go
6.15%
7 - 7 5.84%
8 - 8
C#
4.16%
9 - 9 3.94%
10 - 10 3.36%
11 - 11 2.30%
12 - 12
Lua
1.69%
13 ↑↑ 15 1.64%
14 13
PHP
1.48%
15 14 1.41%
16 - 16 1.22%
17 - 17 0.98%
18 - 18
CSS
0.77%
19 - 19 0.74%
20 21 0.64%
21 20 0.56%
22 ↑↑ 24
Vue
0.41%
23 22 0.39%
24 ↑↑ 6 30 0.35%
25 26 0.32%
26 25 0.32%
27 28 0.30%
28 ↑↑ 8 36
Nix
0.30%
29 ↑↑↑ 32 0.27%
30 ↑↑ 4 34 0.27%
31 ↓↓ 29 0.26%
32 ↑↑ 9 41 0.26%
33 ↓↓ 6 27 0.25%
34 33 0.24%
35 - 35 0.23%
36 ↑↑ 38 0.22%
37 ↑↑ 39
TeX
0.21%
38 ↑↑ 40 0.20%
39 ↓↓ 16 23 0.19%
40 ↑↑↑ 43
Nim
0.19%
41 ↑↑ 4 45
Zig
0.17%
42 ↑↑ 5 47
HCL
0.17%
43 - -
MDX
0.15%
44 ↓↓ 7 37
R
0.14%
45 46 0.14%
46 ↓↓ 44 0.12%
47 ↑↑↑ 50 0.10%
48 49 0.10%
49 48 0.10%
50 ↑↑↑ 53 0.09%
51 - 51 0.09%
52 - 52 0.09%
53 ↑↑ 7 60 0.08%
54 ↓↓ 23 31 0.08%
55 ↑↑ 10 65 0.07%
56 ↓↓ 54 0.06%
57 - 57
F#
0.06%
58 ↑↑ 4 62 0.06%
59 ↑↑ 61 0.05%
60 ↓↓ 5 55 0.05%
61 ↑↑ 10 71 0.05%
62 ↓↓↓ 59 0.05%
63 ↑↑ 31 94
jq
0.04%
64 ↑↑ 59 123 0.04%
65 ↓↓ 9 56 0.04%
66 ↑↑ 48 114 0.04%
67 ↑↑ 55 122 0.04%
68 ↓↓ 4 64
QML
0.04%
69 ↓↓ 6 63
ASL
0.04%
70 ↓↓ 12 58 0.04%
71 ↓↓ 4 67 0.04%
72 ↑↑ 13 85 0.04%
73 ↑↑ 15 88 0.04%
74 ↓↓ 5 69
D
0.04%
75 ↓↓ 7 68 0.04%
76 75 0.03%
77 ↑↑ 12 89 0.03%
78 ↑↑ 18 96 0.03%
79 ↓↓ 37 42 0.03%
80 ↓↓ 8 72 0.03%
81 ↓↓ 15 66 0.03%
82 ↓↓ 8 74 0.03%
83 84
Elm
0.03%
84 ↑↑ 8 92
V
0.03%
85 ↑↑ 20 105 0.03%
86 ↓↓ 16 70 0.03%
87 ↓↓ 5 82 0.02%
88 ↑↑ 90 0.02%
89 ↓↓ 8 81
VBA
0.02%
90 ↓↓ 17 73 0.02%
91 - 91 0.02%
92 ↓↓ 14 78 0.02%
93 ↓↓ 14 79 0.02%
94 ↑↑ 8 102 0.02%
95 ↑↑ 8 103
Tcl
0.02%
96 ↑↑ 21 117 0.02%
97 98 0.02%
98 ↓↓ 12 86 0.02%
99 ↓↓ 19 80 0.02%
100 101 0.02%

We have used 296,475 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:
Raku, Blade, Forth, Nunjucks, Haxe, Ada, EJS, CoffeeScript, Game Maker Language, TSQL, Lean, Gherkin, NSIS, Cuda, DIGITAL Command Language, Awk, Smalltalk, VimL, YAML, Text, ActionScript, Jsonnet, Dhall, mcfunction, Less, AGS Script, Squirrel, Coq, ZenScript, Hy, Cython, Papyrus, reStructuredText, SQF, XSLT, Processing, M, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic, PostScript, Yacc, Standard ML, Apex, GSC, VBScript, Odin, COBOL, PureScript, DM, YARA, BrighterScript, SourcePawn, sed, RPM Spec, MAXScript, ReScript, Sass, GAP, Fluent, SQL, KakouneScript, ANTLR, LLVM, Liquid, Typst, Max, CartoCSS, BASIC, Reason, Pug, Hack, BitBake, Janet, Stylus, Twig, AppleScript, Arc, Pyret, Earthly, Brainfuck, LilyPond, PureBasic, C# & C++, Inno Setup, Modula-2, Arduino, Open Policy Agent, PLSQL, Meson, Idris, AMPL, APL, KerboScript, just, Smali, Ballerina, JavaScript, Rust, Metal, Dylan, M4, Toit, Brightscript, Classic ASP, UnrealScript, Isabelle, HolyC, TLA, RobotFramework, Chapel, Scilab, Nextflow, Gleam, CUE, Nushell, JetBrains MPS, FreeBasic, hoon, ABAP, ASP.NET, JSON, Agda, F*, CWeb, MQL5, q, CodeQL, Futhark, nesC, KiCad Layout, kvlang, Shell, C, Groff, Io, Factor, Wren, Haml, SaltStack, Monkey C, SuperCollider, Dafny, Stata, SVG, XML, Eagle, MLIR, Mercury, QMake, SWIG, JSONiq, POV-Ray SDL