Most Popular Programming Languages 1955 - 2025

From the ones on the list I have used:
1. Java
2. C++
3. C#
4. JavaScript & TypeScript
5. Python
6. PHP
7. Swift
8. Ruby
9. C
10. x86 Assembly
11. BASIC
12. Rust
13. Visual Basic

These are in no apparent order, although the top 5 are actually my top 5 used.

Indeed, my stack from school was FORTRAN -> Basic -> Pascal -> C -> (background noise) -> C😊

I have gone from Basic -> 68000 assembly language -> Pascal -> C -> some x86 asm with C -> C++ -> Objective C -> PHP. Most ocmmonly use C and C++.
Anyone who thinks "C is obsolete" simply hasnt got a clue - what are most of the other languages written in ? C.
And no, assembly language isnt obsolete either

C and assembly goes brr

No Forth?

c++ was created in 1984

3 languages I ❤ the most:
Java, C# and C++
3 languages which I am 🤮 of:
Python, PHP, Assembly

Python is still shit.

I used to think c is the boss but assembly is the real boss.

I even wrote a program in FOCAL8. Not many programming languages run on a 6 kB machine.

Interesting there's no mention to xBase languages (dBase, Clipper, FoxPro). They were the main language for small-medium companies where I lived between 1990-1997.

js is shit

Surprised to see that RPG never made the list. This might have been due to so many variations of RPG, RPG II, RPG III, RPG IV, RPG400, RPGILE, etc.

I don’t buy these numbers at all for the 70s and 80s.

The video has mistakes... JavaScript appears before java...

Over 40 years: Basic, Z80 Assembler, IBM Assembler (370/390), COBOL, Easytrieve Plus, SAP ABAP. With some Javascript and recently Go.

C is king. Java is a disgrace.

Comparing two languages is like comparing a sedan with a train :

Talk about a disaster coder quality is down in the tubes if Python is on the top or just means a lot of people learned Python in college and stuck with it not realizing there are better scripting language options that will yield greater speed and ability.

What's the next most popular language? Dart & Flutter, Zig! Wishful thinking?

Used in school: PDP-11 machine code, Fortran, Pascal, LISP
Used at work for many years: APL, PL/I, IBM 370/390 Assembler, OPS5
Use now for fun: Python

My favorite programming languages:
1- Golang
2- JavaScript
3- Python
4- PHP

The methodology employed to obtain these numbers is ridiculous. No wonder we get Python on top. The AI collected all the fan boys posts...

And I'm surprised I don´t see any Rust maniac crying in the comments.

I love programming languages but Assembly language is not one language it’s multiple and it depends on architecture. Unlike other language that are architecture agnostic

I always liked turbo basic

C,C++, C#, Pascal, COBOL,Java,Python,BASIC, Visual Basic, some Ruby, LISP,FORTRAN 77, and attempted to learn Lua, Forth and assembly. Maybe a few others. Also created a macro language called DUM, which was used heavily at a company I used to work at even a decade after I left. Easiest to learn was Python, fastest was probably C.

Perl, JavaScript, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby and TypeScript are not a programming language, they are scripting language. What a noob, then ppl are wondering why society is becoming more stupid...

C# is the best to me.

My tier list:
1. C/C++
2. Java
3. python
4. Javascript
5. Mips ASM

Cool to see C dominating from 1985 to 2001, then Java from 2001 to 2018, and then Python from 2018 til now. Also, thanks for the example code in the lower right. That was useful.

Now in know, why professor and lecturer, teach me C, Assembly and LISP, during my college years.

Studied FORTRAN, assembly and Pascal in actual courses. Self taught in C. Dabbled in Perl and Python. Dabbled even less with C++ Java, JavaScript, PHP and TCL. At work I used C, assembly and some python. Most of my programming work has been on embedded systems. I never touched FORTRAN after graduation.

Rust will fuc** everyone 😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜😜

What's source?

Now python shines in bigdata? In web backend it's usage?

I think it's Rust,Go, Typescript And R These All Languages become popular in 2030 And Rust is stand On Number 1

2025 is a truely lie.

I've done most of them. C, C++, C#, Basic, Visual Basic, Java, PowerShell, Bash, Fortran, Cobol, Pascal, Python, Lisp, APL and I've done Assembler coding on IBM 360/370, CDC 6600, and 6502, 6800 and 6809 microprocessors. I would have thought COBOL would have out paced Fortran judging by the IT recruiting happening in the 70s and 80s.

I started off with BASIC, picked up Delphi and C along the way, learned Java, PLC, JavaScript and PHP in college, picked up C++, Python, Typescript and C# after that, picked up Lua and Zig recently. Using C#, Python, Typescript, C and Zig on a regular basis nowadays.

Python is fuc*** garbage.

Hmm no SQL at all

Learned Assembly in college. Hated it.

I think, one of the biggest main reasons for the popularity is minecraft. And as far as I know SAP.

What about actionscript? Was the time to short or to popularity to small? I worked a lot with actionscript and in my bubble I saw actionscript everywhere :D

But today no one care about the language them self. Frameworks and libraries are dominating the programming world.

To think you are named after a popular kid, not because you are anyway related to him, but because you hope to get benefit of his popularity having similar names, and then to beat him in popularity . JS has come long way.😅

Kotlin 🚀

My mains are TypeScript and C#, i love them, i think i will marry them

My Choice --> Java☠️
Any Java Guy here ? Attendance pls 🙋🏻‍♂️

Still coding in PHP ❤