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
2023 Apr
Programming Language
Rating
1 - 1 18.11%
2 3 12.02%
3 2 10.36%
4 - 4
C++
7.43%
5 6
Go
6.55%
6 5
C
6.26%
7 - 7 6.13%
8 - 8
C#
3.88%
9 - 9 3.70%
10 - 10 3.32%
11 - 11 2.25%
12 ↑↑↑ 15 1.66%
13 12
Lua
1.51%
14 13
PHP
1.47%
15 14 1.46%
16 - 16 1.12%
17 - 17 0.96%
18 - 18
CSS
0.73%
19 - 19 0.70%
20 21 0.60%
21 20 0.52%
22 ↑↑↑ 25
Vue
0.40%
23 22 0.35%
24 ↑↑ 5 29 0.34%
25 24 0.33%
26 ↑↑ 28 0.31%
27 26 0.31%
28 ↑↑ 7 35
Nix
0.30%
29 ↑↑ 12 41 0.27%
30 - 30 0.27%
31 32 0.26%
32 31 0.26%
33 ↓↓ 6 27 0.25%
34 ↑↑ 4 38 0.24%
35 34 0.24%
36 ↑↑ 7 43
Nim
0.21%
37 36 0.21%
38 ↑↑ 40 0.21%
39 ↓↓ 16 23 0.20%
40 ↑↑ 5 45
Zig
0.19%
41 ↓↓ 39
TeX
0.19%
42 - -
MDX
0.18%
43 ↑↑↑ 46
HCL
0.18%
44 - 44 0.15%
45 ↓↓ 8 37
R
0.13%
46 47 0.11%
47 ↑↑↑ 50 0.10%
48 ↑↑ 5 53 0.10%
49 48 0.09%
50 51 0.09%
51 ↓↓ 49 0.09%
52 - 52 0.09%
53 ↑↑ 5 58 0.09%
54 ↑↑↑ 57
F#
0.07%
55 ↑↑ 7 62 0.07%
56 ↑↑ 8 64 0.06%
57 ↓↓↓ 54 0.06%
58 ↓↓ 25 33 0.06%
59 ↓↓ 4 55 0.05%
60 ↑↑ 54 114 0.05%
61 ↑↑ 58 119 0.05%
62 61 0.05%
63 ↓↓ 4 59 0.04%
64 ↓↓ 8 56 0.04%
65 ↑↑ 22 87 0.04%
66 ↑↑ 17 83 0.04%
67 ↑↑ 22 89
jq
0.04%
68 ↑↑ 70
D
0.04%
69 ↑↑ 71 0.04%
70 ↓↓ 5 65
QML
0.04%
71 ↓↓ 4 67 0.04%
72 ↓↓ 30 42 0.04%
73 ↓↓ 10 63
ASL
0.04%
74 ↑↑ 12 86 0.04%
75 ↓↓ 15 60 0.03%
76 ↓↓ 10 66 0.03%
77 ↑↑ 22 99
V
0.03%
78 ↑↑ 31 109 0.03%
79 ↑↑ 22 101 0.03%
80 ↑↑ 4 84
Elm
0.03%
81 ↓↓ 9 72 0.03%
82 ↓↓ 8 74 0.03%
83 ↑↑ 22 105 0.03%
84 ↓↓ 11 73 0.03%
85 ↓↓ 10 75 0.03%
86 ↑↑ 10 96 0.03%
87 ↓↓ 19 68 0.02%
88 ↑↑ 32 120 0.02%
89 ↓↓ 20 69 0.02%
90 ↑↑ 49 139 0.02%
91 ↓↓ 11 80 0.02%
92 ↑↑↑ 95 0.02%
93 ↓↓ 91 0.02%
94 ↑↑ 6 100
Tcl
0.02%
95 ↓↓ 5 90 0.02%
96 ↓↓ 14 82 0.02%
97 ↓↓ 5 92 0.02%
98 ↓↓ 21 77 0.02%
99 ↑↑ 13 112
EJS
0.02%
100 ↓↓ 15 85 0.02%

We have used 230,833 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:
Ada, Gherkin, VBA, Forth, Bicep, Cuda, Mathematica, Haxe, CoffeeScript, Blade, Groovy, Smalltalk, TSQL, Game Maker Language, NSIS, DIGITAL Command Language, Coq, Awk, Mojo, ActionScript, Jsonnet, Text, Less, Hy, VimL, Dhall, AGS Script, YAML, Squirrel, ZenScript, Odin, PostScript, VBScript, COBOL, MAXScript, mcfunction, Standard ML, reStructuredText, PureScript, Cython, Hack, Processing, Papyrus, Yacc, RPM Spec, Visual Basic, sed, Apex, XSLT, SQF, SourcePawn, BitBake, Reason, Meson, Visual Basic 6.0, ANTLR, YARA, ReScript, CartoCSS, Typst, Stylus, DM, BASIC, Pyret, GSC, LLVM, Sass, Liquid, C# & C++, Modula-2, KakouneScript, Twig, LilyPond, Arc, Fluent, Brainfuck, Idris, Earthly, HolyC, Pug, Smali, GAP, Gleam, Inno Setup, Max, Janet, PureBasic, Metal, Ballerina, Dylan, Arduino, BrighterScript, Open Policy Agent, M, Classic ASP, Isabelle, AppleScript, just, AMPL, Brightscript, CUE, Chapel, APL, Factor, KiCad Layout, F*, PLSQL, CodeQL, Shell, C, JavaScript, Rust, JSON, M4, CWeb, MQL5, TLA, ASP.NET, Wren, JetBrains MPS, Riot, Scilab, Nextflow, q, nesC, SuperCollider, ABAP, Agda, RobotFramework, XML, FreeBasic, SVG, Io, Nushell, Toit, JSONiq, SaltStack, Kaitai Struct, KiCad, Dafny, SWIG, ObjectScript, kvlang, ZIL, Monkey C, Cadence, MLIR, hoon, Slash, KerboScript, Pact, Rez