Here are the top 250 programming languages in the PLDB. You can also view all the languages in the PLDB. Rankings are explained here.
| title | appeared | type | rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Java | 1995 | pl | 1 |
| JavaScript | 1995 | pl | 2 |
| C | 1972 | pl | 3 |
| Python | 1991 | pl | 4 |
| HTML | 1991 | textMarkup | 5 |
| C++ | 1985 | pl | 6 |
| SQL | 1974 | queryLanguage | 7 |
| PHP | 1995 | pl | 8 |
| XML | 1996 | dataNotation | 9 |
| Ruby | 1995 | pl | 10 |
| R | 1993 | pl | 11 |
| Go | 2009 | pl | 12 |
| Perl | 1987 | pl | 13 |
| C# | 2000 | pl | 14 |
| Scala | 2004 | pl | 15 |
| MATLAB | 1984 | pl | 16 |
| Swift | 2014 | pl | 17 |
| MySQL | 1995 | queryLanguage | 18 |
| JSON | 2001 | dataNotation | 19 |
| Rust | 2010 | pl | 20 |
| Haskell | 1990 | pl | 21 |
| Fortran | 1957 | pl | 22 |
| Lua | 1993 | pl | 23 |
| CSS | 1996 | stylesheetLanguage | 24 |
| TypeScript | 2012 | pl | 25 |
| Scheme | 1970 | pl | 26 |
| Objective-C | 1984 | pl | 27 |
| COBOL | 1959 | pl | 28 |
| Clojure | 2007 | pl | 29 |
| PostgreSQL | 1986 | queryLanguage | 30 |
| Lisp | 1958 | pl | 31 |
| SAS | 1976 | pl | 32 |
| Visual Basic | 1991 | pl | 33 |
| Erlang | 1986 | pl | 34 |
| Mathematica | 1988 | pl | 35 |
| ARM | 1985 | assembly | 36 |
| Kotlin | 2011 | pl | 37 |
| Prolog | 1972 | pl | 38 |
| Julia | 2012 | pl | 39 |
| Pascal | 1970 | pl | 40 |
| Elixir | 2011 | pl | 41 |
| Ada | 1980 | pl | 42 |
| PowerShell | 2006 | pl | 43 |
| ISBN | 1970 | schema | 44 |
| Tcl | 1988 | pl | 45 |
| OCaml | 1996 | pl | 46 |
| Dart | 2011 | pl | 47 |
| Assembly language | 1960 | assembly | 48 |
| Groovy | 2003 | pl | 49 |
| F# | 2005 | pl | 50 |
| CoffeeScript | 2009 | pl | 51 |
| Common Lisp | 1984 | pl | 52 |
| Bash | 1989 | pl | 53 |
| D | 2001 | pl | 54 |
| Smalltalk | 1972 | pl | 55 |
| Solidity | 2014 | contractLanguage | 56 |
| Crystal | 2014 | pl | 57 |
| Regular Expressions | 1951 | queryLanguage | 58 |
| Racket | 1994 | pl | 59 |
| Nim | 2008 | pl | 60 |
| BASIC | 1964 | pl | 61 |
| HTTP | 1989 | protocol | 62 |
| APL | 1964 | pl | 63 |
| Delphi | 1995 | pl | 64 |
| Chapel | 2004 | pl | 65 |
| Forth | 1970 | pl | 66 |
| Elm | 2012 | pl | 67 |
| CUDA | 2007 | pl | 68 |
| Verilog | 1984 | hardwareDescriptionLanguage | 69 |
| awk | 1977 | pl | 70 |
| Eiffel | 1986 | pl | 71 |
| Reason | 2016 | pl | 72 |
| PostScript | 1982 | textMarkup | 73 |
| DOI | 2000 | schema | 74 |
| Haxe | 2005 | pl | 75 |
| Node.js | 2009 | pl | 76 |
| PowerPC | 1992 | isa | 77 |
| X86 | 1978 | isa | 78 |
| FTP | 1971 | protocol | 79 |
| Maple | 1982 | pl | 80 |
| YAML | 2001 | dataNotation | 81 |
| GNU Octave | 1988 | pl | 82 |
| LaTeX | 1985 | textMarkup | 83 |
| Emacs Lisp | 1985 | pl | 84 |
| fish | 2005 | pl | 85 |
| GraphQL | 2012 | queryLanguage | 86 |
| Modula-2 | 1978 | pl | 87 |
| Standard ML | 1990 | pl | 88 |
| TLS | 1999 | protocol | 89 |
| Scratch | 2002 | visual | 90 |
| Dylan | 1992 | pl | 91 |
| TCP | 1974 | protocol | 92 |
| UML | 1996 | xmlFormat | 93 |
| Tex | 1978 | pl | 94 |
| VHDL | 1983 | hardwareDescriptionLanguage | 95 |
| REBOL | 1997 | pl | 96 |
| LLVM IR | 2003 | ir | 97 |
| ECMAScript | 1997 | pl | 98 |
| Rexx | 1979 | pl | 99 |
| SMTP | 1982 | protocol | 100 |
| MUMPS | 1966 | pl | 101 |
| Arduino | 2005 | pl | 102 |
| Idris | 2014 | pl | 103 |
| Red | 2011 | pl | 104 |
| SPSS | 1968 | pl | 105 |
| PureScript | 2013 | pl | 106 |
| Markdown | 2004 | textMarkup | 107 |
| Pug | 2010 | template | 108 |
| Modula-3 | 1986 | pl | 109 |
| Simula | 1965 | pl | 110 |
| PL/SQL | 1991 | pl | 111 |
| LabVIEW G | 1986 | pl | 112 |
| Zig | 2015 | pl | 113 |
| Self | 1987 | pl | 114 |
| Applescript | 1993 | pl | 115 |
| Vala | 2006 | pl | 116 |
| BCPL | 1966 | pl | 117 |
| WebAssembly | 2015 | bytecode | 118 |
| ANTLR | 1992 | grammarLanguage | 119 |
| SOAP | 1998 | xmlFormat | 120 |
| ClojureScript | 2011 | pl | 121 |
| Io | 2002 | pl | 122 |
| Visual Basic .NET | 2001 | pl | 123 |
| Deno | 2018 | pl | 124 |
| Rust MIR | 2016 | ir | 125 |
| UDP | 1980 | protocol | 126 |
| REST | 1996 | protocol | 127 |
| HAML | 2006 | template | 128 |
| Hy | 2013 | pl | 129 |
| Wren | 2013 | pl | 130 |
| Oz | 1991 | pl | 131 |
| MIPS architecture | 1985 | isa | 132 |
| SQLite | 2000 | queryLanguage | 133 |
| J | 1990 | pl | 134 |
| VBScript | 1996 | pl | 135 |
| ASP | 1996 | template | 136 |
| Brainfuck | 1993 | pl | 137 |
| MediaWiki | 2002 | wikiMarkup | 138 |
| SVG | 2001 | textMarkup | 139 |
| Oberon | 1986 | pl | 140 |
| Logo | 1967 | pl | 141 |
| Ballerina | 2015 | pl | 142 |
| SNOBOL | 1962 | pl | 143 |
| Boo | 2003 | pl | 144 |
| IDL | 1977 | pl | 145 |
| ActionScript | 1998 | pl | 146 |
| Hack | 2014 | pl | 147 |
| TOML | 2013 | dataNotation | 148 |
| URL | 1994 | schema | 149 |
| Yacc | 1975 | grammarLanguage | 150 |
| V | 2019 | pl | 151 |
| RDF | 1997 | dataNotation | 152 |
| Protocol Buffers | 2008 | idl | 153 |
| Sage | 2005 | pl | 154 |
| CIL | 2000 | pl | 155 |
| OpenCL | 2009 | pl | 156 |
| AMPL | 1985 | pl | 157 |
| XQuery | 2007 | pl | 158 |
| HCL | 2014 | dataNotation | 159 |
| MoonScript | 2011 | pl | 160 |
| Pike | 1994 | pl | 161 |
| ML | 1973 | pl | 162 |
| AutoIt | 1999 | pl | 163 |
| Fantom | 2005 | pl | 164 |
| Icon | 1977 | pl | 165 |
| MIME | 1991 | textDataFormat | 166 |
| PostCSS | 2013 | textMarkup | 167 |
| Limbo | 1995 | pl | 168 |
| Arc | 2001 | pl | 169 |
| VBA | 1993 | pl | 170 |
| SPARQL | 2008 | queryLanguage | 171 |
| Wolfram Language | 1988 | pl | 172 |
| QBasic | 1991 | pl | 173 |
| Stata | 1985 | pl | 174 |
| Reverse Polish notation | 1953 | notation | 175 |
| SuperCollider | 1996 | pl | 176 |
| Agda | 2007 | pl | 177 |
| Perl 6 | 2015 | pl | 178 |
| Scilab | 1990 | pl | 179 |
| Falcon | 2003 | pl | 180 |
| Seed7 | 2005 | pl | 181 |
| Opa | 2011 | pl | 182 |
| sed | 1974 | pl | 183 |
| SPARC | 1987 | isa | 184 |
| JSP | 1999 | template | 185 |
| Nemerle | 2003 | pl | 186 |
| Ceylon | 2011 | pl | 187 |
| Coconut | 2014 | pl | 188 |
| HyperTalk | 1987 | pl | 189 |
| Squirrel | 2003 | pl | 190 |
| Liquid | 2008 | template | 191 |
| JSON5 | 2012 | dataNotation | 192 |
| ColdFusion | 1995 | pl | 193 |
| Ioke | 2008 | pl | 194 |
| Factor | 2003 | pl | 195 |
| PEG.js | 2010 | grammarLanguage | 196 |
| ALGOL 60 | 1960 | pl | 197 |
| Cap'n Proto | 2013 | idl | 198 |
| Algol | 1958 | pl | 199 |
| Occam | 1983 | pl | 200 |
| Makefile | 1976 | pl | 201 |
| Maxima | 1982 | pl | 202 |
| F* | 2014 | pl | 203 |
| Gnuplot | 1986 | pl | 204 |
| Xojo | 1996 | pl | 205 |
| X10 | 2004 | pl | 206 |
| Bison | 1985 | grammarLanguage | 207 |
| FLUX | 2014 | pl | 208 |
| Processing | 2001 | pl | 209 |
| Mercury | 1995 | pl | 210 |
| RFC | 1969 | notation | 211 |
| Batchfile | 1985 | pl | 212 |
| ABAP | 1983 | pl | 213 |
| XPath | 1999 | queryLanguage | 214 |
| Sass | 2006 | stylesheetLanguage | 215 |
| Clean | 1987 | pl | 216 |
| Koka | 2012 | pl | 217 |
| Lasso | 1995 | pl | 218 |
| Eve | 2016 | pl | 219 |
| XAML | 2008 | xmlFormat | 220 |
| NewLisp | 1991 | pl | 221 |
| PureBasic | 1998 | pl | 222 |
| xBase | 1986 | pl | 223 |
| IA-32 | 1985 | isa | 224 |
| Befunge | 1993 | esolang | 225 |
| Caml | 1985 | pl | 226 |
| E | 1997 | pl | 227 |
| PL/I | 1964 | pl | 228 |
| grep | 1974 | pl | 229 |
| Terra | 2012 | pl | 230 |
| Coq | 1989 | pl | 231 |
| Zephir | 2013 | pl | 232 |
| Dafny | 2009 | pl | 233 |
| OWL | 2004 | xmlFormat | 234 |
| YARA | 2008 | pl | 235 |
| Frege | 2011 | pl | 236 |
| Java Bytecode | 1995 | bytecode | 237 |
| DOT | 2007 | textMarkup | 238 |
| Smali | 2010 | assembly | 239 |
| S-expressions | 1960 | dataNotation | 240 |
| K | 1993 | pl | 241 |
| Scala.js | 2013 | pl | 242 |
| Microsoft BASIC | 1975 | pl | 243 |
| JScript | 1996 | pl | 244 |
| KaTeX | 2013 | textMarkup | 245 |
| Slim | 2011 | template | 246 |
| LOLCODE | 2007 | esolang | 247 |
| UNLAMBDA | 1999 | pl | 248 |
| Turtle | 2011 | dataNotation | 249 |
| B | 1969 | pl | 250 |