Scratch Climbs the Rankings

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Nov 2023 Nov 2022 Change Programming Language Ratings Change 1 1 Python 14.16% -3.02% 2 2 C 11.77% -3.31% 3 4 ↑ C++ 10.36% -0.39% 4 3 ↓ Java 8.35% -3.63% 5 5 C# 7.65% +3.40% 6 7 ↑ JavaScript 3.21% +0.47% 7 10 ↑ PHP 2.30% +0.61% 8 6 ↓ Visual Basic 2.10% -2.01% 9 9 SQL 1.88% +0.07% 10 8 ↓ Assembly language 1.35% -0.83% 11 17 ↑↑ Scratch 1.31% +0.43% 12 24 ↑ Fortran 1.30% +0.74% 13 11 ↓ Go 1.19% +0.05% 14 15 ↑ MATLAB 1.15% +0.14% 15 28 ↑↑ Kotlin 1.15% +0.68% 16 14 ↓ Delphi/Object Pascal 1.14% +0.07% 17 18 ↑ Swift 1.04% +0.17% 18 19 ↑ Ruby 0.99% +0.14% 19 12 ↓↓ R 0.93% -0.20% 20 20 Rust 0.91% +0.16%

What it means

A programming-language ranking table compares November 2023 with November 2022. Scratch has risen dramatically from 17th to 11th place, overtaking or approaching several modern languages, which creates the ironic joke that its popularity does not necessarily mean someone should learn it. It is useful as a reaction to exaggerated rankings or to question whether popularity alone is a good reason to study a language.

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