We aggregated data from nine rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming Language Popularity. Here's which languages came out on top and what to make of this information.

The Ada programming language was born in the mid-1970s, when the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK’s Ministry Of Defence sought to replace the hundreds of specialized programming lang… ...

The dominant programming language of the future will also be universal, in that it will support all developers regardless of their spoken language, Panetta said. 4.

The programming languages and skills that pay the best in 2019 TechRepublic The 10 programming languages associated with the highest-paying jobs all earned developers an average salary above $100,000.

High-level programming languages are ones that are more similar to the English language, while low-level languages are closer to raw machine code, or "binary" language.