That includes the top 10 programming languages each year, which, in 2020, included Java, Python, and C. JavaScript continued to dominate as the most used programming language for six years in a row.

A survey from 2020 based on 17,000 responses from developers showed how JavaScript continued to be the most used programming language.

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