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programming [[language]] popularity study

By Adam Dill on 2018-08-20

Redmonk updated their regular programming language popularity study, and with no changes in the top performers: no one was surprised. Javascript, Java, Python, PHP, and C# were the top performers. Check out the sweet graph and the full write up.

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