Most Popular Programming Languages 1958 - 2025

The most-used programming languages evolved dramatically: in the late 1950s and 1960s, early languages such as Fortran, Assembly, COBOL, ALGOL and Lisp dominated computing as pioneers of high-level and systems programming, with Fortran especially prominent in scientific work. By the 1980s and 1990s, C and C++ rose to prominence for systems and application development, while languages like Java, JavaScript, Python and PHP emerged in the mid-1990s and 2000s to lead web and enterprise programming. In the 2010s and early 2020s, Java, JavaScript and Python became the most widely used languages globally, with Python often topping popularity indices due to its versatility in data science, AI and scripting; by 2025, current rankings place Python at #1, followed by languages such as C++, Java, C, C# and JavaScript among the most used worldwide, reflecting decades of technological change and the growth of new domains like web and AI development.

notes: Popularity in this ranking is defined by the number of developers proficient in or actively learning each language. The scale is normalized to a relative value of 100, allowing for consistent comparisons across languages and time periods.

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Дата на публикация: 3 януари, 2026
Категория: Наука и технология
Ключови думи: Popular most 1958 2025 programming Languages