Programming Language Popularity – Part Ten

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I made a number of Google searches of the forms below and summed the results:

"implemented in <lang>"
"written in <lang>"
"developed in <lang>"
"programmed in <lang>"

I opted to not move over the previous 9 parts when I moved from Wordpress to a static site.

I’ve divided the table into sections based on percentage increases of more than 50% from one language to the next. To compute the rank delta, I excluded the newly added languages.

|------+-------------+------------+-------+-------|
| Rank | Language    | # Search   | Prev. |  Rank |
|      |             | Results    |  Rank | Delta |
|------+-------------+------------+-------+-------|
|    1 | C           | 30,370,000 |     1 |       |
|------+-------------+------------+-------+-------|
|    2 | R           |  4,101,600 |     2 |       |
|------+-------------+------------+-------+-------|
|    3 | C++         |  1,406,100 |     4 |     1 |
|    4 | Java        |  1,394,000 |     3 |    -1 |
|------+-------------+------------+-------+-------|
|    5 | Python      |    868,000 |     6 |     1 |
|    6 | C#          |    844,800 |     5 |    -1 |
|    7 | Javascript  |    632,600 |     7 |       |
|    8 | FORTRAN     |    548,500 |     8 |       |
|    9 | Perl        |    489,600 |     9 |       |
|   10 | Ruby        |    399,200 |    10 |       |
|   11 | Scheme      |    362,500 |    11 |       |
|   12 | Go          |    333,800 |    12 |       |
|------+-------------+------------+-------+-------|
|   13 | Lua         |    170,940 |    17 |     4 |
|   14 | Haskell     |    151,190 |    15 |     1 |
|   15 | Lisp        |    141,880 |    13 |    -2 |
|   16 | Prolog      |    139,890 |    16 |       |
|   17 | Scala       |    124,450 |    14 |    -3 |
|   18 | Common Lisp |    113,510 |    20 |     2 |
|   19 | COBOL       |    113,000 |    18 |    -1 |
|   20 | Erlang      |     80,060 |    19 |    -1 |
|   21 | Rust        |     79,650 |    21 |       |
|   22 | Smalltalk   |     73,120 |    23 |     1 |
|   23 | OCaml       |     59,970 |    24 |     1 |
|   24 | Forth       |     58,300 |    26 |     2 |
|   25 | Clojure     |     51,690 |    22 |    -3 |
|   26 | Julia       |     45,210 |    25 |    -1 |
|------+-------------+------------+-------+-------|
|   27 | Pony        |     16,927 |   N/A |   N/A |
|   28 | Racket      |     16,150 |    28 |       |
|   29 | Elixir      |     12,723 |    29 |       |
|------+-------------+------------+-------+-------|