The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2023

Ranking over time.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redmonk.com&#x2F;rstephens&#x2F;files&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;redmonk-language-rankings-jan-2023.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;redmonk.com&#x2F;rstephens&#x2F;files&#x2F;2023&#x2F;05&#x2F;redmonk-language...</a>

It seems to me that they made the same mistake that I did in my GitHub archive queries, they do not filter bot accounts. JavaScript, without filter, is on top 1 because of dependabot. If you filter all bots then Python is number 1, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;madnight.github.io&#x2F;githut&#x2F;#&#x2F;pull_requests&#x2F;2023&#x2F;1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;madnight.github.io&#x2F;githut&#x2F;#&#x2F;pull_requests&#x2F;2023&#x2F;1</a>

Nim and crystal are higher than I thought. It&#x27;s a pity they didn&#x27;t get traction like rust or go, I find them a good intermediate between python&#x2F;ruby and C&#x2F;C++

I&#x27;m curious as to the query they&#x27;re using in stackoverflow, since the results they&#x27;ve graphed vary considerably from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;trends" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;trends</a>.

Am curious where the total JVM language usage stands if you add them all up. Would be interesting to know how much Java gradually slipping is people leaking to other ecosystems vs competition within the JVM language ecosystem itself. It&#x27;s impressive overall in the the sense that not only is Java one of the top 3 languages but Kotlin&#x2F;Scala&#x2F;Groovy&#x2F;Clojure each occupy impressively high rankings in their own right.

Ada is gone!?!?! Are all those weapon systems and European banks gonna&#x27; program themselves?

I enjoy looking over the 2D chart of programming language popularity, but the chart raises some questions:<p>-- How are there more <i>Roff</i> projects on GitHub than there are projects in <i>Julia</i> or <i>Haskell</i> or <i>Perl</i>? I haven&#x27;t thought about <i>Roff</i> for decades.<p>-- Why are <i>Zig</i> and <i>Nim</i> so far apart on the chart?<p>-- What circumstances are putting some languages above the diagonal while others are below it? <i>Go</i> and <i>Rust</i> are below the diagonal while <i>R</i>, <i>Processing</i>, <i>Matlab</i>, <i>Scheme</i> and <i>Racket</i> are above the diagonal?

Never heard of Ballerina. Looks pretty neat. I&#x27;m curious of all these keywords would add too much cognitive load over time? People don&#x27;t seem to care for things like Rust, but I found it to be a pretty considerable turn off.<p>If there are vim lang tools for Ballerina I might give it a try!

I was wondering why the GCC Machine Description language was such an outlier, especially considering I&#x27;ve never heard of it before. I googled it, and it turns on machine description files use the extension &quot;.md&quot;.

Is Prolog so low as to not appear?