What are the most popular programming languages?

There is a useful guide for keeping track of the programming languages that are the most popular. Tracks these rankings monthly, based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide as well as things like available courses and third-party vendors. 

At the time of writing, some of the top programming languages include: 

• C
• Java 
• Python
• C++
• C# 
• Visual Basic 
• JavaScript
• PHP
• SQL
• Assembly language
• R
• Groovy 
  

You’ll notice this list doesn’t include two languages you may have heard of – HTML and CSS. These two languages determine much of the structure and style of webpages. However, that’s all they do; they don’t contain instructions and statements like those listed above, and so aren’t usually considered as programming languages. 

That being said, if you’re hoping to code for the web or use languages such as JavaScript, you’ll want to have a good understanding of both HTML and CSS.