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Weekly Trends and and Language Statistics

Weekly Trends


Popularity of Programming Language
Worldwide, Apr 2026 compared to a year ago:

Rank Change Language Share Trend
1 Python 36.21 % +5.7 %
2 up arrow C/C++ 13.21% +6.2 %
3 down arrow Java 10.01% -5.4%
4 up arrow R 6.17 % +1.6 %
5 down arrow Javascript 5.07% -3.0 %
6 up arrow Swift 3.15 % +0.8 %
7 down arrow C# 3.0 % -3.0 %
8 Rust 2.98 % -0.1 %
9 down arrow PHP 2.96 % -0.7 %
10 Objective-C 2.57 % +0.1 %
11 up arrow Ada 2.51% +1.1 %
12 down arrow TypeScript 1.8 % -0.9 %
13 up arrow Matlab 1.51 % -0.1 %
14 up arrow Powershell 1.26 % +0.4 %
15 up arrow Ruby 0.95 % -0.1%
16 Dart 0.94 % -0.1 %
17 down arrow Kotlin 0.9 % -0.9 %
18 Lua 0.86 % -0.1 %
19 VBA 0.85 % -0.1 %
20 up arrow Julia 0.73% +0.4 %
21 down arrow GO 0.71 % -1.3 %
22 Scala 0.36 % -0.2%
23 down arrow Abap 0.35 % -0.2 %
24 up arrow Zig 0.27 % +0.2 %
25 up arrow Delphi/Pascal 0.23 % +0.2 %
26 down arrow Visual Basic 0.17 % -0.1 %
27 up arrow Haskell 0.11 % +0.0 %
28 Perl 0.1 % +0.0 %
29 down arrow Groovy 0.05% -0.1 %
30 down arrow Cobol 0.04 % -0.1 %

Source : https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

TIOBE Index for April 2026

Apr 2026 Apr 2025 Change Programming Language Ratings Change
1 1 Python 20.97% -2.11%
2 3 up arrow C 12.34% +2.39%
3 2 down arrow C++ 8.03% -2.30%
4 4 Java 7.79% -1.84%
5 5 C# 5.98% +1.59%
6 6 JavaScript 3.11% -0.60%
7 8 up arrow Visual Basic 3.02% +0.08%
8 10 up arrow SQL 1.75% -0.44%
9 14 up arrow R 1.62% +0.43%
10 9 down arrow Delphi/Object Pascal 1.52% -1.01%
11 12 up arrow Scratch 1.48% +0.13%
12 19 up arrow Perl 1.48% +0.57%
13 11 down arrow Fortran 1.22% -0.82%
14 13 down arrow PHP 1.17% -0.13%
15 7 down arrow Go 1.09% +1.92%
16 18 up arrow Rust 1.09% +0.13%
17 16 down arrow MATLAB 1.05% -0.02%
18 17 down arrow Assembly language 1.05% +0.07%
19 26 up arrow Swift 0.92% +0.24%
20 15 down arrow Ada 0.91% -0.18%

Source : https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/