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Language Trends
Weekly movement in programming language popularity. Updated every Tuesday from 7 independent data sources.
Current data as of July 12, 2026 · 8 weeks of history
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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
C++
TypeScript
Composite score = weighted average across GitHub, job postings, Stack Overflow, Wikipedia pageviews, packages, Reddit, and tutorials. See methodology · Who overtook whom this week →
Current Snapshot
| Rank | Language | Change | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Python | — | 65.5 |
| #2 | JavaScript | — | 47.3 |
| #3 | Java | — | 37.7 |
| #4 | C++ | — | 33.1 |
| #5 | TypeScript | — | 30.8 |
| #6 | C# | — | 27.2 |
| #7 | Go | — | 24.7 |
| #8 | Rust | — | 23.4 |
| #9 | PHP | — | 16.8 |
| #10 | R | — | 11.1 |
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