Today, while writing an article on PHP resources on DEV, I found myself comparing the number of articles of the most popular language tags out there (PHP, JS, Go, ...).

Finally, I searched a bit and I did it for every languages.

Before today, I just had the feeling that many posts were about Javascript or related stuff. The fact is that the results are amazing: 56% of the posts related to programming languages are about Javascript! 😲

Language	Framework or related	#	%
Ada		1	0.01%
Julia		1	0.01%
Cobol		2	0.02%
Smalltalk		2	0.02%
Objective-C		5	0.04%
Lua		11	0.09%
Erlang		14	0.12%
R		22	0.19%
Haskell		22	0.19%
Lisp		24	0.20%
	incl Scheme	5	0.04%
Crystal		26	0.22%
Dart		34	0.29%
Perl		35	0.30%
Clojure		42	0.35%
Scala		49	0.41%
Elm		75	0.63%
C++		88	0.74%
Rust		121	1.02%
C		154	1.30%
Kotlin		156	1.32%
.NET		156	1.32%
Elixir		167	1.41%
Swift		169	1.43%
C#		200	1.69%
Android		374	3.15%
Java		383	3.23%
Go		393	3.31%
PHP		725	6.11%
	incl Symfony	14	0.12%
	incl Laravel	182	1.53%
Ruby		859	7.24%
	incl Rails	324	2.73%
Python		865	7.29%
	incl Django	95	0.80%
Javascript		6684	56.36%
	incl jQuery	38	0.32%
	incl Express	78	0.66%
	incl Redux	128	1.08%
	incl Typescript	188	1.59%
	incl Angular	260	2.19%
	incl Vue.js	368	3.10%
	incl React Native	382	3.22%
	incl Node.js	782	6.59%
	incl React	1066	8.99%
TOTAL		11859	100.00%

I included frameworks, libraries and variants in their related languages (e.g. jQuery in Javascript.

More than Javascript, the statistics show that frontend languages, frameworks and libraries are massively tagged unlike backend ones that are under-represented.

A language like Go only has 3.3% of the language tags, which is very low compared to the real popularity of the language.

Haskell is almost inexistent whereas it's very popular in functional programming.

I don't know what to think about this 🤔. And you?

📊 Languages' Popularity on DEV