JavaScript Rules the Most Popular Programming Language List of RedMonk Again

JavaScript is the most mainstream language today, trailed by Python and Java, as indicated by the developer-focused industry analyst firm RedMonk’s Q1 2021 language popularity rankings. 

The top 20 in RedMonk’s Q1 2021 rankings don’t vary much from its July 2020 rankings. Nonetheless, RedMonk analyst Stephen O’Grady noticed almost a half of the top 20 experienced a level of development, which is quite uncommon.

One language that is rose quickly as of late is Python and it hasn’t moved from the number two spot — a position it took from Oracle’s Java last July.

Java was very hot behind Python – and was indeed nearer to the main positioning than to PHP behind it – however Python’s capacity to safeguard its new high positioning is outstanding, as stated by O’Grady.

 RedMonk bases its language rankings from GitHub information, for example, the quantity of pull requests in different languages and conversations on the developer info-sharing site Stack Overflow. RedMonk joins them for a positioning that endeavors to reflect both code (GitHub) and conversation (Stack Overflow) foothold”.

TypeScript, a strict syntactical superset of Microsoft’s JavaScript , rose one spot to eighth position.

O’Grady figures TypeScript has combined its place as a best 10 language and is presently addressing whether it will ascend to fifth or 6th spot.

Rust, made at Mozilla as a multi-paradigm programming language designed for performance and safety, rose one spot to nineteenth position. A month ago, Mozilla gave off Rust to the new Rust Foundation, a free association sponsored by AWS, Huawei, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla. AWS is taking a gander at Rust for infrastructure programming. Mozilla made it as a memory safe option in contrast to C and C++.

Google’s Go programming language dropped one spot to sixteenth position, while Kotlin, a language that Google supports for Android application advancement, rose one spot to eighteenth position.

Here’s RedMonk’s top 10 for Q1 2021:

1.       JavaScript

2.       Python

3.       Java

4.       PHP

5.       C#

6.       C++

7.       CSS

8.       TypeScript

9.       Ruby

10.   C

So, JavaScript still rules and Python has a firm hold as the second most popular language over Java.