If we look at Stackoverflow’s yearly developer’s study, we’ll find a similar picture of the most popular programming languages:


  1. JavaScript – 66.7%
  2. SQL – 53.7%
  3. Java – 38.3%
  4. C# – 36.7%
  5. Python – 27.6%
  6. PHP – 27.2%
  7. C++ – 19.3%
  8. C – 15.4%
  9. TypeScript – 11.3%


Similar studies from GitHub agree on that. JavaScript, Python, & Java are the most popular programming languages in 2017 measured by the number of pull requests on github.com.


source: octoverse.github.com

We conducted our own survey & researched the most popular programming languages. We conclude with the following programming languages for 2017:

  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • Python
  • Elixir
  • Rust
  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • PHP
  • Ruby on Rails
  • C#
  • Swift