This is a curated list of 48 programming languages with some metrics:
| DOB | GitHub Repositories with 100+ Stars | GitHub Pull Requests | Tweets | TIOBE Index | Votes in Stack Overflow 2021 Survey | Mentions in Google Scholar | Stack Overflow Questions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haskell | 1990 | 892 | 498391 | n/a | 36 | 1749 | 532000 | 50646 |
| Assembly | 1949 | 319 | 105417 | n/a | 10 | 4632 | 5320000 | 42833 |
| Haxe | 2006 | 88 | 83165 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 7310 | 1628 |
| Clojure | 2007 | 1204 | 350662 | n/a | 47 | 1552 | 6820 | 17564 |
| Smalltalk | 1972 | 19 | 70135 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 95400 | 1694 |
| Elixir | 2012 | 759 | 502677 | n/a | 50 | 1438 | 370000 | 9397 |
| Modula-3 | 1988 | 1 | 260 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 4970 | 18 |
| Ada | 1980 | 13 | 12285 | n/a | 23 | 0 | 3910000 | 2331 |
| Erlang | 1986 | 381 | 181514 | n/a | 42 | 651 | 103000 | 9566 |
| Lisp | 1958 | 204 | 67877 | n/a | 27 | 1096 | 248000 | 6900 |
| C# | 2000 | 8842 | 8506362 | n/a | 5 | 22984 | 611000 | 1592728 |
| Fortran | 1957 | 86 | 150354 | n/a | 19 | 0 | 1030000 | 29697 |
| Python | 1991 | 39308 | 26982680 | n/a | 1 | 39792 | 1970000 | 2139092 |
| Bash | 1989 | 6712 | 4155912 | n/a | 49 | 0 | 231000 | 152990 |
| Rust | 2010 | 4157 | 2505581 | n/a | 17 | 5799 | 1480000 | 36810 |
| ALGOL | 1958 | 261291 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0 | 116000 | 22 |
| SQL | 1974 | 4 | 2390 | n/a | 9 | 38835 | 1090000 | 661317 |
| Dart | 2011 | 2008 | 1061052 | n/a | 28 | 4965 | 778000 | 88225 |
| Scala | 2004 | 1495 | 1611359 | n/a | 35 | 2148 | 1250000 | 111456 |
| Ceylon | 2011 | 0 | 3073 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 507000 | 114 |
| JavaScript | 1995 | 43411 | 66067582 | n/a | 7 | 53587 | 2840000 | 2496626 |
| TypeScript | 2012 | 10623 | 26725102 | n/a | 40 | 24909 | 363000 | 216218 |
| Squeak | 1996 | 19 | 70135 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 89700 | 412 |
| Tcl | 1988 | 36 | 51473 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 295000 | 7826 |
| VBA | 1993 | 33 | 35927 | n/a | 6 | 3847 | 171000 | 209504 |
| Prolog | 1972 | 29 | 17175 | n/a | 43 | 0 | 381000 | 13335 |
| OCaml | 1996 | 311 | 239509 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 17500 | 7474 |
| PHP | 1995 | 9305 | 12104550 | n/a | 8 | 18130 | 5690000 | 1459033 |
| Simula | 1962 | 261291 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0 | 2450000 | n/a |
| Swift | 2014 | 5407 | 1571444 | n/a | 14 | 4204 | 2140000 | 327482 |
| Pascal | 1970 | 247 | 164213 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 4640000 | 2592 |
| COBOL | 1959 | 7 | 3569 | n/a | 26 | 437 | 76200 | 1669 |
| Racket | 1994 | 53 | 29616 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 194000 | 5796 |
| Eiffel | 1986 | 2 | 2858 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 155000 | 288 |
| Perl | 1988 | 639 | 566409 | n/a | 24 | 2028 | 623000 | 67663 |
| Groovy | 2003 | 327 | 510070 | n/a | 41 | 2479 | 36100 | 29697 |
| Julia | 2012 | 490 | 576951 | n/a | 30 | 1068 | 2710000 | 11954 |
| Lua | 1993 | 1358 | 752194 | n/a | 29 | 0 | 632000 | 21960 |
| C++ | 1985 | 13609 | 10325776 | n/a | 4 | 18663 | 229000 | 794497 |
| Ruby | 1995 | 6799 | 14525094 | n/a | 18 | 5569 | 1030000 | 227941 |
| Oberon | 1987 | 261291 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0 | 62800 | 15 |
| Java | 1995 | 20216 | 23439117 | n/a | 3 | 29162 | 3740000 | 1898110 |
| Go | 1995 | 12042 | 8725317 | n/a | 12 | 7879 | 8950 | 69279 |
| XSLT | 1998 | 69 | 118863 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 54400 | 38065 |
| TeX | 1978 | 737 | 471710 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 2470000 | 11006 |
| Kotlin | 2011 | 2927 | 1937199 | n/a | 33 | 6866 | 19600 | 88457 |
| Self | 1987 | 1 | 161 | n/a | n/a | 0 | 6480000 | 1535 |