Programming languages: C++ overtakes PHP, but JavaScript, Python and Java still rule While the most used programming languages remain stable, there's quite a lot of change elsewhere.

Programming language popularity: JavaScript leads – 5 million new developers since 2017 But Python has also gained 2.2 million developers over the past year while Java adds 1.7 million since 2017.

What just happened? For the first time in more than 20 years, the Python programming language has overtaken Java, JavaScript, and C as the most popular language.

Caught between the freewheeling, weed-smoking ways of JavaScript and the uptight full-frontal parent mode of Java, some developers have opted for “alt-JavaScripts” like CoffeeScript that ...