The October rating of programming languages popularity, noted the triumph of the programming language Python (11.27%), which for the year has moved from third to first place, displacing the languages C (11.16%) and Java (10.46%). The popularity index bases its conclusions on an analysis of search query statistics from Google, Google Blogs, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, MSN, YouTube, Bing, Amazon and Baidu.
Compared to last October, the rating also shows an increase in popularity of Assembler (from 17 to 10 place), Visual Basic (from 19 to 11 place), SQL (from 10 to 8 place), Go (from 14 to 12), MatLab (from 15 to 13), Fortran (from 37 to 18), Object Pascal (from 22 to 20), D (from 44 to 34), Lua (from 38 to 32). Perl (from 11 to 19 places), R (from 9 to 14), Ruby (from 13 to 16), PHP (from 8 to 9), Groovy (from 12 to 15), Swift (from 16 to 17) and Rust (from 25 to 26) declined in popularity.
As for other ratings on the popularity of programming languages, according to IEEE Spectrum rankings, Python is also in first place, followed by Java, C and C++. Next are JavaScript, C#, R and Go. IEEE Spectrum ranking is prepared by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and takes into account the combination of 12 metrics, obtained from 10 different sources (the method is based on the evaluation of search results for the query “{language_name} programming”, analysis of Twitter mentions, the number of new and active repositories in GitHub, the number of questions in Stack Overflow, mentions in the digital archive of journal articles and conference papers.
In the October PYPL ranking, which uses Google Trends, the top four for the year have not changed: Python takes first place, followed by Java, JavaScript, C#. The C/C++ language moved up to 5th place, displacing PHP on 6th place.
