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Language Trends
Weekly movement in programming language popularity. Updated every Tuesday from 7 independent data sources.
Current data as of May 17, 2026 · 8 weeks of history
This Week's Movers
Rank movement data becomes available after the second weekly collection.
“Python remains the world's most popular programming language this week, leading across all 7 data sources we track.”
Source: LangPop · langpop.com/trends
Score Trajectories
Composite scores for the top languages over time. Higher is more popular.
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Python
JavaScript
Java
TypeScript
C++
Composite score = weighted average across GitHub, job postings, Stack Overflow, Google Trends, packages, Reddit, and tutorials. See methodology
Current Snapshot
| Rank | Language | Change | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Python | — | 48.7 |
| #2 | JavaScript | — | 39.8 |
| #3 | Java | — | 32.5 |
| #4 | TypeScript | — | 27.7 |
| #5 | C++ | — | 26.3 |
| #6 | Go | — | 18.7 |
| #7 | C# | — | 16.8 |
| #8 | PHP | — | 15.0 |
| #9 | Rust | — | 13.6 |
| #10 | Swift | — | 10.0 |
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