As part of RedMonk’s analysis about language rankings, here’s a visualization that tracks the movement of the top 20 languages over the history of the rankings.

we extract language rankings from GitHub and Stack Overflow, and combine them for a ranking that attempts to reflect both code (GitHub) and discussion (Stack Overflow) traction. The idea is not to offer a statistically valid representation of current usage, but rather to correlate language discussion and usage in an effort to extract insights into potential future adoption trends.

The most popular programming languages in 2024 (and what that even means)

We aggregated data from nine different 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.

The Top Programming Languages 2024

Typescript and Rust are among the rising stars

The advent and rise of AI-based code assistants are already impacting the data that populates RedMonk’s language rankings. As questions and knowledge sharing moves from public forums to private tools, our ability to ascertain meaningful trends from said public data will be indefinitely altered. 

TIOBE Index Predicts C# as 2023 'Language of the Year' After 2022 Near-Miss 

ThoughtWorks Radar Volume 29.  This explores the techniques, tools, platforms, and languages that you should adopt, consider, or hold. 

Top Programming Languages Sought by Employers in 2023 for Software Engineers 

The top programming languages | The State of the Octoverse 

The TOPDB Top Database Index is created by analyzing how often database names are searched on Google