The language once created to run cable set top boxes continues to be a workhorse, and importantly one that has consistently been able to find new work to do. This would be less of a surprise but for many of the language’s competitors – and, it should be said, the odd industry analyst or two – writing regularly recurring epitaphs for the stalwart of enterprise infrastructure. O'Grady's comment on this in his blog post is:Īfter spending a few quarters demoted to third place in our rankings, prompting questions from observers as to whether it was fated to a gradual drift down these rankings, Java surged back into a tie for second place with Python. So it comes as something of a surprise that Java has rebounded. Given how rarely one language displaces another, when Python originally tied with Java in January 2020 and then moved into second place at the next iteration, June 2020, it seemed likely that Python had overtaken Java on a permanent basis. This not only seems intuitively to be a good approach, it produces consistent and believable results.Īt the top of the table, its results are also pretty immutable as can be seen from this extract covering the top four languages for the last 5 years, with JavaScript solidly occupying the top slot and PHP, which Python displaced from #3 in 2016, maintaining its #4 position. Since 2012 RedMonk's co-founder and Principal Analyst, Stephen O'Grady has ranked the popularity of programming languages on a twice-yearly schedule based on a very straightforward methodology - a correlation between GitHub pull requests (an indication of language usage) and Stack Overflow discussions (an indication of level of interest).
In the latest iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Ratings, for June 2021, Java has tied with Python in second place, a repeat of the situation that initially occurred in January 2020. Java and Python Again Share Second Place In RedMonk Rankings
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