Analyst RedMonk picked Julia as a language to watch in 2018 as a possible Python rival. It's not in RedMonk's latest June 2022 top 20 list , but also isn't far from it.

According to Coding Dojo's annual Top Programming Languages report, PHP hit an all-time low. Python continues to dominate the top position.

But despite being an early programming language, created in the 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, C's popularity has dipped in recent years. It dropped from eighth to ninth place on GitHub ...

Rust, a systems programming language that deals with memory safety flaws, is now in 26th position, ahead of MIT's Julia, and Kotlin, a language endorsed by Google for Android app development.

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