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Are statistical programmers coalescing around a handful of popular languages? That's the question asked by the CEO of software assessment site TIOBE , which every month estimates the popularity of programming languages based on their frequency in search results:Their estimate for the most popular programming languages in May:
The five next most popular languages on their rankings are Fortran, Scratch, Perl, PHP, and then Rust at #15. Rust is up for positions from May of 2025 — while Go has dropped to #16, seven ranks lower than its May 2025 position of #7.