Según TIOBE http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html el ranking para Septiembre de 2015 de los lenguajes de programación mas usados es el siguiente
| Sep 2015 | Sep 2014 | Change | Programming Language | Ratings | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |  | Java | 19.565% | +5.43% |
| 2 | 1 |  | C | 15.621% | -1.10% |
| 3 | 4 | | C++ | 6.782% | +2.11% |
| 4 | 5 | | C# | 4.909% | +0.56% |
| 5 | 8 | | Python | 3.664% | +0.88% |
| 6 | 7 | | PHP | 2.530% | -0.59% |
| 7 | 9 | | JavaScript | 2.342% | -0.11% |
| 8 | 11 | | Visual Basic .NET | 2.062% | +0.53% |
| 9 | 12 | | Perl | 1.899% | +0.53% |
| 10 | 3 |  | Objective-C | 1.821% | -8.11% |
| 11 | 29 |  | Assembly language | 1.806% | +1.22% |
| 12 | 13 | | Ruby | 1.783% | +0.50% |
| 13 | 15 | | Delphi/Object Pascal | 1.745% | +0.59% |
| 14 | 14 | Visual Basic | 1.532% | +0.26% | |
| 15 | 17 | | Pascal | 1.298% | +0.40% |
| 16 | 18 | | Swift | 1.188% | +0.34% |
| 17 | 19 | | MATLAB | 1.181% | +0.36% |
| 18 | 20 | | PL/SQL | 1.082% | +0.27% |
| 19 | 21 | | R | 1.045% | +0.24% |
| 20 | 31 | | COBOL | 0.994% | +0.42% |