Since 2011, RedMonk has been counting the most popular programming languages every quarter. According to the latest statistics, Swift has become the fastest-growing programming language and has entered the top ten for the first time, tied with Objective-C. RedMonk said that it is shocking that Swift can achieve such results in 4 years.
Generally speaking, it is very difficult for a brand new programming language to enter the top 25, let alone the top 10. RedMonk's ratings are based on GitHub and Stack Overflow, which combine code and discussion to determine which programming languages are more popular. Below are the 20 most popular programming languages.
1 JavaScript
2 Java
3 Python
4 PHP
5 C
#6 C++
7 CSS
8 Ruby
9 C
10 Swift
10 Objective-C
12 Shell12 R
14 TypeScript
14 Scala
16 Go
17 PowerShell
18 Perl
19 Haskell
20 Lua