Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...

Helping port PHP code to Python (provides a first pass, which can then be manually edited). Front-end (PHP parser): uses an external PHP parser (nikic/php-parser) to parse PHP code and build an AST.

The top 10 however largely remained stable, led by Java in top spot, followed by C, Python, C++, Visual Basic .NET, JavaScript, C#, PHP, SQL, and Objective-C.