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Languages popularity by SDKs

| python | java | golang | ruby | javascript |

Unpopular opinion: measure language popularity by their usage in SDKs. Here I’ve collected some random SDKs (see below) and expectedly the following languages are the top:

  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript (Web and Node.js)
  • C#/.NET

Less popular are:

  • Go
  • PHP
  • C++

What surprised me it’s the investment in Rust and some still support Ruby.

Cloud

# AWS Azure GCP IBM
.NET βœ… βœ… βœ…
C++ βœ… βœ… βœ…
Go βœ… βœ… βœ… βœ…
Python βœ… βœ… βœ… βœ…
Java βœ… βœ… βœ… βœ…
Kotlin βœ…
JavaScript βœ…
Node.js βœ… βœ… βœ…
PHP βœ… βœ…
Ruby βœ… βœ…
Rust βœ…
Swift/iOS βœ… βœ… βœ…
SAP ABAP βœ… βœ…
Embedded C βœ…
Android βœ… βœ…

Payment

# Paypal Stripe Square
.NET βœ… βœ… βœ…
Go βœ…
Python βœ… βœ… βœ…
Java βœ… βœ… βœ…
Node.js βœ… βœ… βœ…
PHP βœ… βœ…
Ruby βœ… βœ… βœ…

Random SDKs

# OpenTelemetry Cloudflare OpenAI Splunk Slack Twilio
.NET βœ… βœ… βœ… βœ…
C++ βœ…
Go βœ… βœ… βœ…
Python βœ… βœ… βœ… βœ… βœ… βœ…
Java βœ… βœ… βœ… βœ…
TypeScript βœ…
JavaScript βœ… βœ… βœ…
Node.js βœ… βœ… βœ…
PHP βœ… βœ…
Ruby βœ… βœ…
Rust βœ…
Swift/iOS βœ… βœ…
Android βœ…
Erlang/Elixir βœ