Glossary
programming language popularity
programming language popularity is language share estimated from proxy signals - search-engine queries (TIOBE; TIOBE Index records "monthly top-50 ratings since June 2001, history to 1986; full CSV of 150+ languages offered at US$5,000". In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, TIOBE Index and PYPL Programming Language Popularity are working examples.
What is programming language popularity?
Programming language popularity is language share estimated from proxy signals - search-engine queries (TIOBE, PYPL), GitHub activity (GitHut) or developer self-report (Stack Overflow).
The four sources in this slice disagree by design, since each weights a different signal.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - TIOBE Index — "monthly top-50 ratings since June 2001, history to 1986; full CSV of 150+ languages offered at US$5,000". - PYPL Programming Language Popularity — "29 languages from Google Trends tutorial searches, monthly back to June 2004, commercial delivery terms 3.0". - GitHut — "quarterly per-language PRs, pushes, stars and issues from Q2 2012 to Q1 2024 on BigQuery githubarchive data". - Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey — "65,437 respondents across 185 countries in 2024".
PYPL Programming Language Popularity is the second reference point worth knowing: "29 languages from Google Trends tutorial searches, monthly back to June 2004, commercial delivery terms 3.0". Reading the two together shows how much variation sits underneath one shared label.
Why does programming language popularity matter when choosing a dataset?
Conventions decide whether two sources can be joined at all. Buy one side of an analysis that ignores this convention and every reconciliation step — calendar alignment, unit conversion, entity matching — lands on your team instead of the vendor's.
The failure mode is concrete: a source can carry the programming language popularity label while differing from what you need on exactly the dimension that matters — monthly top-50 ratings since June 2001, history to 1986; full CSV of 150+ languages offered at US$5,000. Comparing two sources on that line usually settles the choice faster than any feature matrix.
You rarely have to take a vendor's word for it. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets Datadory catalogs are free to access, and TIOBE Index lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate programming language popularity in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Open TIOBE Index and confirm its record — "monthly top-50 ratings since June 2001, history to 1986; full CSV of 150+ languages offered at US$5,000" — against the files you actually receive. 2.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - developer survey
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of programming language popularity?
TIOBE Index is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record states: "monthly top-50 ratings since June 2001, history to 1986; full CSV of 150+ languages offered at US$5,000". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "programming language popularity" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides programming language popularity?
Open TIOBE Index next to PYPL Programming Language Popularity and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
Datasets containing this field
Datasets containing programming language popularity
6 datasets carry programming language popularity in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
Apple App Store - 10k Apps Dataset (Kaggle - ramamet4)
Apple iTunes Search API
BIS Data Portal - Bulk Downloads
FREQ · L_MEASURE / L_POSITION / L_INSTR / L_DENOM · L_CURR_TYPE …+8 more
Capterra Software Directory
Chrome Web Store - Extensions & Apps
Data.gov - Software Datasets Catalog
programCode · mediaType (per resource) · views-last-month …+2 more
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