Most Popular Software Programming Languages In Pictures

If you are a developer you might be wondering what is the best language for application development. Let us look at it from some pictures. 

Obviously, JAVA is the winner and you can see C, C++ is also in the higher ranking. However, not sure the reason for the higher ranking on Visual Basic .NET over C#.

Following is the ranking from IEEE. 

JAVA is the non-dispute leader in this ranking as well and it too has the same ranking as previous. The notable observation is the growth of R language over the years. It has jumped to rank 6 from 9. 

Another important parameter is the Salary and Job opening.

Though JAVA has a lot of openings than other programming languages, the average salary is higher in other languages such as Python, C++, Ruby etc.

Finally, let us compare the different aspects of programming languages.