Programming Language Popularity – Part Eleven
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’ve divided the table into sections based on percentage increases of more than 50% from one language to the next.
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| Rank | Language | # Search | Prev. | Rank |
| | | Results | Rank | Delta |
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| 1 | C | 22,403,000 | 1 | |
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| 2 | R | 2,089,000 | 2 | |
| 3 | Java | 1,684,000 | 4 | 1 |
| 4 | C++ | 1,404,500 | 3 | -1 |
| 5 | Python | 1,154,100 | 5 | |
| 6 | JavaScript | 850,500 | 7 | 1 |
| 7 | C# | 829,600 | 6 | -1 |
| 8 | Scheme | 744,600 | 11 | 3 |
| 9 | Go | 645,700 | 12 | 3 |
| 10 | FORTRAN | 618,700 | 8 | -2 |
| 11 | Perl | 480,000 | 9 | -2 |
| 12 | Ruby | 461,660 | 10 | -2 |
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| 13 | Lisp | 228,370 | 15 | 2 |
| 14 | Rust | 216,440 | 21 | 7 |
| 15 | Haskell | 210,600 | 14 | -1 |
| 16 | Julia | 204,370 | 26 | 10 |
| 17 | Scala | 188,500 | 17 | |
| 18 | COBOL | 181,100 | 19 | 1 |
| 19 | Common Lisp | 177,700 | 18 | -1 |
| 20 | Prolog | 166,100 | 16 | -4 |
| 21 | Smalltalk | 130,000 | 22 | 1 |
| 22 | Forth | 114,100 | 24 | 2 |
| 23 | Lua | 109,180 | 13 | -10 |
| 24 | Erlang | 78,050 | 20 | -4 |
| 25 | Clojure | 62,900 | 25 | |
| 26 | OCaml | 60,690 | 23 | -3 |
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| 27 | Pony | 41,129 | 27 | |
| 28 | Racket | 30,160 | 28 | |
| 29 | Elixir | 24,466 | 29 | |
| 30 | Kotlin | 19,077 | N/A | |
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