C Deemed Top Programming Language in New Ten-Source Ranking

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has aggregated data from ten sources that ranked programming languages based on various criteria to provide one of the most broad rankings for programming languages to date. According to its findings, the top 10 most popular programming languages today are C, Java, Python, C++, R, C#, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, and Go. IEEE included data from Google searches, GitHub active repos, GitHub trends, new GitHub projects, Stack Overflow questions, views on existing Stack Overflow questions, Reddit, Hacker News, Career Builder, Dice, Twitter, and IEEE Xplore. Data from a recent 11,000-strong Packt Publishing survey was not included. That survey ranked Python, JavaScript, and Java as the most popular programming languages. The IEEE ranking is full of surprises, the most notable ...