Most Popular Technologies(Stack over Flow report)

Most Popular Technologies
Programming, Scripting, and Markup Languages

  1. JavaScript 69.8%
  2. HTML 68.5%
  3. CSS 65.1%
  4. SQL 57.0%
  5. Java 45.3%
  6. Bash/Shell 39.8%
  7. Python 38.8%
  8. C# 34.4%
  9. PHP 30.7%
  10. C++ 25.4%
  11. C 23.0%
  12. TypeScript
  13. 17.4%
  14. Ruby
  15. 10.1%
  16. Swift
  17. 8.1%
  18. Assembly
  19. 7.4%
  20. Go
  21. 7.1%
  22. Objective-C
  23. 7.0%
  24. VB.NET
  25. 6.7%
  26. R
  27. 6.1%
  28. Matlab
  29. 5.8%
  30. VBA
  31. 4.9%
  32. Kotlin
  33. 4.5%
  34. Scala
  35. 4.4%
  36. Groovy
  37. 4.3%
  38. Perl
  39. 4.2

source ---- https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018

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