Meanwhile, in the separate, twice-yearly Redmonk Programming Language Rankings, the Google Go language (Golang) declined in popularity. Ruby’s move into maturity.

There are those who see Golang or Go as the programming language of the cloud. And as cloud computing accelerates, Go too could. In this year’s Stack Overflow Developer Survey, it’s still not ...

There are three main reasons why Golang has seen this sudden sharp rise in popularity. The first is that Go supports an easy process for cross-platform compilation.

However, C has suffered a dramatic decline in popularity, falling from 16 percent in January 2016 to nine percent today, as did Java, which fell 4.19 percentage points over the year to 17 percent.