July 2017 Headline: Go programming language at all time high and in the top 20

The Go programming language continues to rise. This month it is at an all time high and enters the top 10. This is an important landmark for the Go programming language, but it also makes you wonder what's next. Is Go really able to join the big stars in the programming language world and leave languages such as JavaScript and Python behind? We will see. The hipster programming languages Kotlin, Elixir and Hack didn't progress much this month. Kotlin lost 5 positions, Hack lost 6 positions and Elixir is still not in the top 50 losing also 5 positions.

Jul 2017	Jul 2016	Change	Programming Language	Ratings	Change
1	1		Java	13.774%	-6.03%
2	2		C	7.321%	-4.92%
3	3		C++	5.576%	-0.73%
4	4		Python	3.543%	-0.62%
5	5		C#	3.518%	-0.40%
6	6		PHP	3.093%	-0.18%
7	8		Visual Basic .NET	3.050%	+0.53%
8	7		JavaScript	2.606%	-0.04%
9	12		Delphi/Object Pascal	2.490%	+0.45%
10	55		Go	2.363%	+2.20%
11	9		Perl	2.334%	-0.09%
12	14		Swift	2.253%	+0.29%
13	11		Ruby	2.249%	+0.13%
14	10		Assembly language	2.240%	-0.04%
15	17		R	2.105%	+0.59%
16	13		Visual Basic	2.096%	+0.08%
17	16		MATLAB	2.009%	+0.45%
18	15		Objective-C	1.896%	+0.01%
19	21		Scratch	1.813%	+0.73%
20	18		PL/SQL	1.545%	+0.09%

The complete top 50 of programming languages is listed below. 

Position	Programming Language	Ratings
21	SAS	1.492%
22	ABAP	1.448%
23	D	1.338%
24	Dart	1.330%
25	COBOL	1.135%
26	Transact-SQL	0.934%
27	Lua	0.870%
28	Fortran	0.856%
29	Ada	0.856%
30	Scala	0.810%
31	Prolog	0.742%
32	Lisp	0.741%
33	Bash	0.706%
34	LabVIEW	0.702%
35	Logo	0.574%
36	Apex	0.530%
37	Alice	0.495%
38	Rust	0.458%
39	Ladder Logic	0.455%
40	F#	0.426%
41	Haskell	0.425%
42	Hack	0.410%
43	Erlang	0.367%
44	Scheme	0.349%
45	Awk	0.347%
46	MQL4	0.329%
47	RPG (OS/400)	0.306%
48	Kotlin	0.304%
49	Julia	0.304%
50	Groovy	0.300%

The next 50 programming languages

The following list of languages denotes #51 to #100. Since the differences are relatively small, the programming languages are only listed (in alphabetical order).

• (Visual) FoxPro, ABC, ActionScript, APL, AutoLISP, bc, Bourne shell, C shell, CFML, CL (OS/400), Clipper, Clojure, Common Lisp, Crystal, Elixir, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Factor, Forth, Icon, IDL, Inform, Io, J, Korn shell, Magic, Maple, ML, MUMPS, NATURAL, NXT-G, OpenCL, OpenEdge ABL, Oz, PL/I, PowerShell, Q, REXX, Ring, S, Smalltalk, SPARK, SPSS, Standard ML, Stata, Tcl, VBScript, Verilog, VHDL, Wolfram

Very long term history

To see the bigger picture, please find below the positions of the top 10 programming languages of many years back. Please note that these are average positions for a period of 12 months.

Programming Language	2017	2012	2007	2002	1997	1992	1987
Java	1	1	1	1	12	-	-
C	2	2	2	2	1	1	1
C++	3	3	3	3	2	2	4
C#	4	4	7	17	-	-	-
Python	5	7	6	11	27	-	-
Visual Basic .NET	6	19	-	-	-	-	-
PHP	7	6	4	5	-	-	-
JavaScript	8	9	8	8	19	-	-
Perl	9	8	5	4	4	11	-
Assembly language	10	-	-	-	-	-	-
COBOL	25	28	17	9	3	10	8
Lisp	32	12	14	12	9	5	2
Prolog	33	32	26	15	20	12	3
Pascal	106	15	19	97	8	3	5

Programming Language Hall of Fame

The hall of fame listing all "Programming Language of the Year" award winners is shown below. The award is given to the programming language that has the highest rise in ratings in a year. 

Year	Winner
2016	Go
2015	Java
2014	JavaScript
2013	Transact-SQL
2012	Objective-C
2011	Objective-C
2010	Python
2009	Go
2008	C
2007	Python
2006	Ruby
2005	Java
2004	PHP
2003	C++