What is "Arduino" ? If it's the "Arduino" that hobbyist using to DIY device, then "Arduino" is not a language, it's C++.
Yes, that is weird and makes the chart lose credibility. So this likely should bump C++ a bit.
Top Programming Languages 2025
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#122This looks very underwhelming considering it is on the ieee website. It is more like a low effort clickbait blogpost for ads
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#123I’m shocked, Java is so high up in all categories. I have never met a single Java programmer, though to be fair I started my career fairly recently.
Hello there,
using Java since it came out in 1996, alongside many other programming languages like C#, TypeScript, C++, SQL (PL/SQL and Transact-SQL mostly),
Also Android is all about Java, even if Kotlin is the new darling and it uses its own runtime (ART), everything around it is based on the Java ecosystem, the IDE, build tools, most libraries coming out of Maven Central.
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#124As a backend dev (mostly working in fintech) I feel weirdly unable to find a target language to move to. After working with Node and Ruby for a while I really miss a static type system. - Typescript was limited by its option to allow non strictness. Nothing catches my eye, as it’s either Java/.Net and its enterprisey companies or Go, which might not be old but feels like it is, by design. Rust sounds fun, but its use…
Scala is the best language I've ever used - all the good parts of Typescript and all the good parts of Java or Rust. And fintech is one of the few niches where you might still be able to find a job using it.
How's the tooling story with Scala these days?
I played with it a long time ago and the IDE (eclipse plugin?) was a bit of a mess, sbt was prone to weird issues and lock ups and the compiler was pretty slow.
Very fun language tho!
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#125As a backend dev (mostly working in fintech) I feel weirdly unable to find a target language to move to. After working with Node and Ruby for a while I really miss a static type system. - Typescript was limited by its option to allow non strictness. Nothing catches my eye, as it’s either Java/.Net and its enterprisey companies or Go, which might not be old but feels like it is, by design. Rust sounds fun, but its use…
Scala is the best language I've ever used - all the good parts of Typescript and all the good parts of Java or Rust. And fintech is one of the few niches where you might still be able to find a job using it.
We use Scala as well and are very happy with it. We also have a lot of TS, and at this point we are tempted to just switch to using ScalaJS on the frontend as well because of how much better the language is to use. It feels like Scala 3 fixed a lot of issues people had with the language. The IDE tooling isn’t the best, but even then it feels like the IDE tooling for TS breaks all the time once the project is large enough.
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#126What is "Arduino" ? If it's the "Arduino" that hobbyist using to DIY device, then "Arduino" is not a language, it's C++.
The Arduino docs call it the "Arduino programming language" for some reason, even though it's mostly just C++ with a few typedefs. I am not sure why.
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#127As a backend dev (mostly working in fintech) I feel weirdly unable to find a target language to move to. After working with Node and Ruby for a while I really miss a static type system. - Typescript was limited by its option to allow non strictness. Nothing catches my eye, as it’s either Java/.Net and its enterprisey companies or Go, which might not be old but feels like it is, by design. Rust sounds fun, but its use…
You should try ReScript. The language has improved a lot recently. If Typescript is javascript with types bolted on then ReScript is javascript redesigned the proper way. The lsp is also surprisingly good. All that while still being in the node eco system.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
As mentioned, HTML is indeed a programming language. But it’s one that is rarely used on its own. So you could argue that having it as a thing of itself in these lists, makes little sense.
HTML on its own is not Turing complete, so it’s not a programming language in any practical sense. It’s a markup language.
not sure if that's a good criterion. There are also non Turing complete languages like core SQL or Rocq that definitely feel like programming.
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#129Java at #2? Is it really still being used much for new code in this day and age? Or is its popularity mostly due to so much legacy code out there to be maintained?
It is a good choice if you want to use a non-Microsoft stack language (yes C# can be developed on Linux but the quality of the development experience on Linux isn't same as Windows) and want a vast ecosystem. Golang is too verbose due to lack of exceptions and the size of its ecosystem of third-party packages isn't anywhere as close to Java's. Swift is very nice but issues with ecosystem exist there too. Too steep a…
I have developed .NET solutions on Linux over 8 years now (and about 10 years on Windows before) and would say the quality of development in Linux is even better than in Windows today. Sure you can't use Visual Studio in Linux, but you can use VS Code or Rider, which I would prefere anyway.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where does this idea that a programming language has to be Turing complete come from? As far as I can tell from cursory searches, the most broadly understood understanding of a programming language is a formal language for directing computations on a computer. HTML does this, CSS does this, and SQL does this. Frankly even configuration languages like YAML or the spare INI file do this in the proper context. Can these…
Your definition is overly broad and makes everything a programming language, at which point the term isn't useful anymore.
But Turing completeness is also too broad. Otherwise Power point animations and Conways game of life are programming languages.