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 8,186,642 companies using these products.
| Product |
Install base
# of companies we found using this product |
Market Share |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 7,198,516 | 87% |
| Java | 418,367 | < 5% |
| Python | 263,101 | < 5% |
| Perl | 112,986 | < 5% |
| PL/SQL | 55,814 | < 5% |
| Kotlin | 37,609 | < 5% |
| ABAP | 28,941 | < 5% |
| COBOL | 28,831 | < 5% |
| XPath | 13,654 | < 5% |
| Fortran | 10,404 | < 5% |
| SAS Base | 5,140 | < 5% |
| Microsoft Visual FoxPro | 5,078 | < 5% |
| Jython | 2,882 | < 5% |
| Scala | 2,792 | < 5% |
| Informix 4GL | 968 | < 5% |
| IFTTT | 836 | < 5% |
| Apache Groovy | 256 | < 5% |
| ILE RPG | 191 | < 5% |
| PMML-Predictive Model Markup Language | 145 | < 5% |
| SAS/SCL | 83 | < 5% |
| Clojure | 34 | < 5% |
| Adobe Pixel Bender | 14 | < 5% |