Programming languages used for software development worldwide 2024

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Lionel Sujay Vailshery
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Feb 10, 2025

The most popular programming language used in the past 12 months by software developers worldwide is JavaScript as of 2024, according to 61 percent of the software developers surveyed. This is followed by Python at 57 percent of the respondents surveyed.

Programming languages used by software developers worldwide as of 2024

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Release date

December 2024

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2024

Number of respondents

23,262 respondents

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software developers

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