Editors Note: This is the free sneak peak that accompanies the 2014 Top Programming Languages interactive app. For this year’s top 10 programming languages, head on over to this year’s sneak peek, or just jump directly to the full interactive app. The app lets you customize the rankings to meet your own needs, whether you are looking for a job, wondering what are the hot languages for mobile development, or want to see what’s trending in open source.
Working with computational journalist Nick Diakopoulos, IEEE Spectrum has weighted and combined 12 metrics from 10 sources (including IEEE Xplore, Google, and GitHub) to rank the most popular programming languages. If you don’t agree with our weighting, want to see more languages, or are interested in what’s dominant in a specific subsector, such as mobile, go to our online interactive version. There you can adjust the weight of each metric and create your own custom ranking.
