SQL Should Be Your Second Language

Welcome to IEEE Spectrum's annual ranking of the Top Programming Languages. This year we've revamped and stream-lined our interactive ranking tool online and made other changes under the hood. But the goal remains the same-to combine metrics from different sources to estimate the relative popularity of different languages. Here we show the results for the highest-ranked languages, but you can find the full list of 57 languages online.

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Welcome to IEEE Spectrum's annual ranking of the Top Programming Languages. This year we've made changes to our online ranking tool and combined metrics from different sources to estimate the relative popularity of different languages.