---
title: "Top Programming Languages Methodology"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/top-programming-languages-methodology-kj6o1m7pf
source_url: https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-methodology
type: article
source: "IEEE Spectrum"
published: 2023-08-29T15:10:50.333Z
updated: 2026-04-10T02:13:41.681Z
tags: ["discord", "fortran", "github", "python", "r", "sql"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Top Programming Languages Methodology

**[IEEE Spectrum](https://daily.dev/sources/ieeespectrum)** · 6 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Our Top Programming Languages interactive tries to tackle the problem of estimating a language’s popularity. We look at three different aspects of popularity: languages in active use among typical IEEE members and working software engineers.

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