The developer-focused analyst firm RedMonk releases twice-a-year rankings of programming language popularity. This week they also released a handy graph showing the movement of top 20 languages since 2012. Their current rankings for programming language popularity 1. JavaScript 2. Python 3., Refer RedMonk rankings here. Methodology RedMonk plots each language on two axes — GitHub usage (commits, repos) and Stack Overflow discussion (questions, answers) — then ranks based on the intersection of those dimensions. “To be included in this analysis, a language must be observable within both GitHub and Stack Overflow.”, The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings provide a detailed look at which programming languages are currently popular and growing among developers worldwide. Released twice a year, these rankings , RedMonk Top 20 Languages Over Time: June 2024. This iteration of the RedMonk programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Amazon Web Services. AWS manages a variety of developer communities where you can join and learn more about building modern applications in your preferred language. As, TypeScript, R, Kotlin and Rust have all risen a rank since the last time RedMonk took the programming ecosystem’s temperature. TypeScript, which is technically a superset of JavaScript, has attracted a good deal of attention from developers due to its speed as well as its interoperability with existing JavaScript codebases. R, a highly , .