Programming languages: This old favourite tops the charts again Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Feb. 9, 2021 at 2:42 a.m. PT C accounted for 16.34% of all searches that Tiobe tracks.

We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

In brief: Learning a programming language can be tricky, especially for someone new to coding. However, knowing the most popular languages may help some make a critical decision.

PHP: This language for programming web sites is incredibly common — some estimates say it powers one-third of the web. Big sites like WordPress, Facebook, and Yahoo use it.

In what might be seen as good news for Microsoft, its ASP.NET web development framework comes in at No. 2 in usage among server-side programming languages for web projects (even though it's not a ...

The vast majority of programming languages use similar syntax for a reason. For some reason, no one’s bothered to create an assembly language that looks like it. There’s no reason you couldn’t.

As part of our mini-series on programming languages, James Fransham makes the case for R being the best language for data journalism and our team shares their tips for getting started with it.