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Programming languages developers used most, top 10
The languages respondents of the Stack Overflow 2026 survey said they did extensive development work in over the past year, ranked by share. The full top 10 at a glance.
- 1JavaScript8,742 respondents62.0%Official site
- 2SQL8,237 respondents58.4%Official site
- 3HTML/CSS8,212 respondents58.2%Official site
- 4Python8,184 respondents58.0%Official site
- 5Bash/Shell7,231 respondents51.3%Official site
- 6TypeScript6,171 respondents43.8%Official site
- 7Java3,885 respondents27.6%Official site
- 8C#3,826 respondents27.1%Official site
- 9PowerShell3,472 respondents24.6%Official site
- 10C++3,425 respondents24.3%Official site
Of the 14,099 people who answered, 62.0% said they did extensive development work in JavaScript over the past year. SQL is second at 58.4%, HTML/CSS third at 58.2% and Python fourth at 58.0%, so the three sit within one percentage point. Bash/Shell (51.3%) in fifth is the last one above half, and TypeScript in sixth, at 43.8%, is 16.2 percentage points ahead of Java (27.6%) in seventh.
Respondents could pick several languages, so the shares add up to more than 100%. This is not user counts, market share, preference or satisfaction, and it does not tell a language used a lot from one people like. The question page does not give the publication date or the population, so the date is the day this ranking was made.
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