Most Popular Programming Languages (2001–2026)
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This bar chart race shows the most popular programming languages by TIOBE Popularity Index from 2001 to 2026, including Python, Java, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, Visual Basic, Perl, Objective-C, Ruby, SQL, Go, R, Swift, MATLAB, Rust, Kotlin, Assembly Language, Delphi/Object Pascal, and other languages that shaped the software industry
From the early dominance of C, Java, C++, Visual Basic and PHP to the rise of Python, JavaScript, C#, Go, Swift, Kotlin and Rust, this timeline reveals how programming language popularity changed over more than two decades
Watch how Java and C dominated the early 2000s, how PHP and JavaScript grew with the web, how Objective-C and Swift rose with mobile apps, how Go, Kotlin and Rust entered the race, and how Python became one of the biggest winners of the AI, data science and automation era. See the programming languages popularity race unfold quarter by quarter from 2001 to 2026
If you enjoy data visualization, statistics, programming history, software development, coding languages, technology trends, programming language rankings, bar chart race videos, and global tech history, this video is for you
Sources
TIOBE Index
TIOBE Programming Community Index
Public programming language ranking data
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Programming languages featured in the video
C
Java
Python
C++
C#
Visual Basic
JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Objective-C
Delphi/Object Pascal
Ruby
SQL
Go
Assembly Language
R
Swift
MATLAB
Rust
Kotlin
Other programming languages
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