Before we start a religion war over programming languages, we clearly want to tell you that the below data point is collected by IEEE Spectrum which weighted and combined 12 metrics from 10 sources (including IEEE Xplore, Google, and GitHub) to rank the most popular programming languages.

Key | W Web | M Mobile | D Desktop and Enterprise | E Embedded
Ofcourse, popular doesn’t mean best – so take it with a pinch of (popularity) salt.