A programming language is a formal constructed language designed to communicate instructions to a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs to control the behavior of a machine or to express algorithms.
At enlyft, we use sophisticated, patent-pending algorithms to track the use of various Programming Languages products and technologies. We track 22 products in the Programming Languages category, and have found 8,591,145 companies using these products.
| Product |
Install base
# of companies we found using this product |
Market Share |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 7,107,569 | 82% |
| Java | 543,489 | 6% |
| Python | 535,929 | 6% |
| Perl | 122,474 | < 5% |
| PL/SQL | 75,419 | < 5% |
| Kotlin | 68,692 | < 5% |
| ABAP | 44,646 | < 5% |
| COBOL | 36,323 | < 5% |
| XPath | 17,433 | < 5% |
| Fortran | 13,498 | < 5% |
| SAS Base | 6,377 | < 5% |
| Microsoft Visual FoxPro | 5,901 | < 5% |
| Scala | 4,687 | < 5% |
| Jython | 3,770 | < 5% |
| ILE RPG | 1,604 | < 5% |
| Informix 4GL | 1,336 | < 5% |
| IFTTT | 1,263 | < 5% |
| Apache Groovy | 412 | < 5% |
| PMML-Predictive Model Markup Language | 148 | < 5% |
| SAS/SCL | 100 | < 5% |
| Clojure | 57 | < 5% |
| Adobe Pixel Bender | 18 | < 5% |