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 May
Programming Language
Rating
1 - 1 17.93%
2 3 12.56%
3 2 10.52%
4 - 4
C++
7.04%
5 6
Go
6.67%
6 7 6.40%
7 ↓↓ 5
C
6.13%
8 - 8
C#
3.69%
9 - 9 3.51%
10 - 10 3.32%
11 - 11 2.27%
12 ↑↑ 14 1.69%
13 ↑↑ 15 1.59%
14 13
PHP
1.47%
15 ↓↓↓ 12
Lua
1.40%
16 - 16 1.08%
17 - 17 0.96%
18 - 18
CSS
0.71%
19 - 19 0.67%
20 21 0.57%
21 20 0.49%
22 ↑↑↑ 25
Vue
0.38%
23 24 0.34%
24 ↓↓ 22 0.34%
25 ↑↑↑ 28 0.33%
26 ↑↑↑ 29 0.32%
27 ↑↑ 8 35
Nix
0.31%
28 ↑↑ 13 41 0.30%
29 ↓↓↓ 26 0.29%
30 - 30 0.28%
31 ↑↑ 7 38 0.26%
32 - 32 0.26%
33 ↓↓ 6 27 0.24%
34 ↓↓↓ 31 0.23%
35 ↓↓ 33 0.23%
36 ↑↑ 6 42
Nim
0.23%
37 ↑↑↑ 40 0.22%
38 ↑↑ 6 44
Zig
0.21%
39 ↓↓ 5 34 0.20%
40 ↑↑ 5 45
HCL
0.19%
41 ↓↓ 39
TeX
0.19%
42 ↓↓ 19 23 0.19%
43 - -
MDX
0.18%
44 43 0.16%
45 ↓↓ 8 37
R
0.12%
46 ↑↑ 7 53 0.11%
47 46 0.11%
48 49 0.10%
49 50 0.09%
50 51 0.08%
51 ↑↑ 5 56 0.08%
52 ↓↓ 4 48 0.08%
53 ↓↓ 6 47 0.08%
54 ↑↑ 5 59 0.08%
55 ↑↑ 57
F#
0.08%
56 ↑↑ 5 61 0.06%
57 ↓↓ 5 52 0.06%
58 ↑↑ 51 109 0.06%
59 ↓↓ 23 36 0.06%
60 ↑↑ 57 117 0.05%
61 ↑↑ 28 89 0.05%
62 ↓↓ 60 0.05%
63 ↓↓ 9 54 0.05%
64 ↑↑ 20 84
jq
0.04%
65 ↑↑ 16 81 0.04%
66 ↑↑ 4 70
D
0.04%
67 ↑↑ 26 93 0.04%
68 ↓↓ 66 0.04%
69 ↓↓ 11 58 0.04%
70 ↑↑ 42 112 0.04%
71 ↑↑ 11 82 0.04%
72 ↓↓↓ 69 0.04%
73 ↓↓ 9 64
QML
0.04%
74 ↓↓ 19 55 0.04%
75 ↓↓ 10 65 0.04%
76 ↓↓ 14 62
ASL
0.03%
77 ↑↑ 26 103 0.03%
78 ↓↓ 15 63 0.03%
79 ↑↑ 28 107 0.03%
80 ↑↑ 19 99
V
0.03%
81 ↓↓ 9 72 0.03%
82 ↑↑ 4 86
Elm
0.03%
83 ↑↑ 7 90 0.03%
84 ↑↑ 17 101 0.03%
85 ↓↓ 17 68 0.03%
86 ↑↑ 9 95 0.02%
87 ↑↑ 48 135 0.02%
88 ↓↓ 14 74 0.02%
89 ↓↓ 9 80 0.02%
90 ↑↑ 33 123 0.02%
91 ↓↓ 24 67 0.02%
92 ↑↑ 24 116 0.02%
93 ↓↓ 5 88 0.02%
94 ↓↓ 92 0.02%
95 ↑↑ 97
Tcl
0.02%
96 ↓↓ 11 85 0.02%
97 ↑↑↑ 100 0.02%
98 - 98 0.02%
99 ↑↑ 6 105 0.02%
100 ↓↓ 29 71 0.02%

We have used 192,531 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:
AutoIt, Puppet, Ada, EJS, VBA, Mathematica, G-code, CoffeeScript, Coq, Haxe, Blade, TSQL, NSIS, Smalltalk, Game Maker Language, just, Jsonnet, Awk, Dhall, Groovy, Hy, Less, Mojo, Odin, DIGITAL Command Language, Standard ML, VimL, MAXScript, YAML, AGS Script, VBScript, Text, Squirrel, PostScript, reStructuredText, XSLT, Processing, PureScript, sed, ANTLR, Hack, Cython, COBOL, RPM Spec, ActionScript, ZenScript, mcfunction, Reason, Stylus, Apex, ReScript, Typst, Yacc, BASIC, Pyret, Visual Basic, SQF, GSC, C# & C++, Gleam, YARA, Sass, Arc, LLVM, DM, Brainfuck, Modula-2, CartoCSS, Pug, BitBake, Fluent, KakouneScript, Earthly, Meson, Papyrus, Smali, Idris, Twig, Isabelle, PureBasic, Janet, Inno Setup, Arduino, SourcePawn, M, HolyC, Liquid, Ballerina, F*, AppleScript, Max, CWeb, Chapel, APL, KiCad Layout, CodeQL, CUE, Classic ASP, ASP.NET, Shell, C, JSON, Open Policy Agent, Nushell, MQL5, Riot, Dylan, SuperCollider, Brightscript, ObjectScript, SVG, AMPL, TLA, ABAP, KiCad, RobotFramework, M4, q, LilyPond, XML, nesC, Metal, Thrift, Scilab, JetBrains MPS, Io, Visual Basic 6.0, BrighterScript, JavaScript, Rust, Factor, Toit, GAP, Move, Cadence, JSONiq, SWIG, FreeBasic, SaltStack, Slash, Pike, Dafny, Cap'n Proto, Rez, Agda, Haml, JavaScript, Node.js, Kaitai Struct, PLSQL, Wren, MLIR, hoon