{"id":146511,"date":"2015-11-18T13:01:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=146511"},"modified":"2015-11-18T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T11:03:00","slug":"most-popular-programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/146511-most-popular-programming-languages.html","title":{"rendered":"Most popular programming languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest PYPL Popularity of Programming Language Index reveals that Java remains the most popular programming language, followed by Python and PHP.<\/p>\n<p>The Index is created by analysing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more a language tutorial is searched, the more popular the language is assumed to be. It is a leading indicator. The raw data comes from Google Trends,\u201d said PYPL.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to note that Python has seen strong growth (5.3%) over the last 5 years, while PHP has shown a sharp decline (-5%).<\/p>\n<p>The table below provides an overview of the most popular programming languages, and their growth or decline over the last twelve months.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Rank<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Language<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Share<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: left;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">Trend<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Java<\/td>\n<td>24.4%<\/td>\n<td>+0.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Python<\/td>\n<td>11.3%<\/td>\n<td>+1.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>3<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>PHP<\/td>\n<td>10.9%<\/td>\n<td>-0.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>4<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>C#<\/td>\n<td>9.1%<\/td>\n<td>+0.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>5<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>C++<\/td>\n<td>7.7%<\/td>\n<td>-0.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>6<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>C<\/td>\n<td>7.5%<\/td>\n<td>-0.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>7<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Javascript<\/td>\n<td>7.1%<\/td>\n<td>+0.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>8<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Objective-C<\/td>\n<td>5.2%<\/td>\n<td>-1.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>9<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Swift<\/td>\n<td>2.9%<\/td>\n<td>+0.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>10<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R<\/td>\n<td>2.8%<\/td>\n<td>+0.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>11<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Matlab<\/td>\n<td>2.7%<\/td>\n<td>-0.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>12<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Ruby<\/td>\n<td>2.4%<\/td>\n<td>0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>13<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Visual Basic<\/td>\n<td>1.9%<\/td>\n<td>-0.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>14<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>VBA<\/td>\n<td>1.5%<\/td>\n<td>+0.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>15<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Perl<\/td>\n<td>1.2%<\/td>\n<td>-0.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>16<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Scala<\/td>\n<td>0.9%<\/td>\n<td>+0.3%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>17<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>lua<\/td>\n<td>0.5%<\/td>\n<td>0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on programming<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/136148-most-popular-programming-languages-on-github-2008-to-2015.html\">Most popular programming languages on Github: 2008 to 2015<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/127476-coding-in-school-is-dangerous-for-the-it-industry.html\">Coding in school is dangerous for the IT industry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/126238-googles-advice-to-become-a-great-software-engineer.html\">Google\u2019s advice to become a great software engineer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Popularity of Programming Language Index reveals the rise of Python, and the decline of PHP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":93603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,10582,12377,32376,34041],"class_list":["post-146511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-headline","tag-java","tag-php","tag-programming-languages","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146601,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146511\/revisions\/146601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}