---
title: "Programming, scripting, and markup languages — Technology data 2026"
url: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data/da-language
year: 2026
chapter: "technology"
question: "DA_Language"
section: "Admired and Desired"
licence: "ODbL 1.0 (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/)"
---

# Programming, scripting, and markup languages

26% want to use Rust, 67% of Rust users want to continue using Rust

Asked as: Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, which do you want to work with over the next year, and which have you used AI tools or AI agents to work with? Select all that apply in each row. (`Languages`, scale, optional, v2026.1)

## Options offered

1. Ada
2. Assembly
3. Bash/Shell (all shells)
4. C
5. C#
6. C++
7. Clojure
8. COBOL
9. Dart
10. Delphi
11. Elixir
12. Erlang
13. F#
14. Fortran
15. GDScript
16. Gleam
17. Go
18. Groovy
19. Haskell
20. HTML/CSS
21. Java
22. JavaScript
23. Julia
24. Kotlin
25. Lisp
26. Lua
27. MATLAB
28. MicroPython
29. Mojo
30. Nix
31. Objective-C
32. OCaml
33. Perl
34. PHP
35. PowerShell
36. Prolog
37. Python
38. R
39. Ruby
40. Rust
41. Scala
42. Solidity
43. SQL
44. Swift
45. TypeScript
46. VBA
47. Visual Basic (.Net)
48. Zig
49. Other, please specify (with free-text entry)

## Results

_Desired = "Want to use" / Admired = "Have used" & "Want to use"_

### All Respondents

n = 14,099

|  | Desired | Admired |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| Python | 33.4% | 50.6% |
| SQL | 32.0% | 51.4% |
| HTML/CSS | 29.0% | 47.8% |
| JavaScript | 27.8% | 42.0% |
| TypeScript | 27.5% | 53.0% |
| Rust | 26.3% | 67.4% |
| Bash/Shell (all shells) | 25.8% | 48.1% |
| Go | 17.7% | 49.5% |
| C# | 16.5% | 50.0% |
| C++ | 15.8% | 45.8% |
| C | 14.2% | 45.9% |
| Java | 13.1% | 38.5% |
| Kotlin | 9.4% | 43.1% |
| PowerShell | 8.7% | 31.5% |
| Zig | 8.0% | 58.3% |
| PHP | 7.6% | 35.7% |
| Assembly | 6.8% | 48.3% |
| Lua | 6.4% | 40.8% |
| Swift | 5.3% | 48.5% |
| Elixir | 4.7% | 62.1% |
| Haskell | 4.5% | 47.8% |
| Nix | 4.3% | 56.8% |
| Ruby | 4.1% | 42.4% |
| Dart | 4.1% | 42.3% |
| GDScript | 4.0% | 53.8% |
| Lisp | 3.5% | 55.4% |
| R | 3.3% | 40.7% |
| Erlang | 2.8% | 49.1% |
| Gleam | 2.7% | 52.3% |
| OCaml | 2.6% | 51.5% |
| Julia | 2.5% | 47.4% |
| Clojure | 2.5% | 48.7% |
| Scala | 2.5% | 39.2% |
| MicroPython | 2.4% | 37.0% |
| F# | 2.3% | 48.3% |
| Perl | 2.2% | 30.7% |
| Ada | 1.8% | 38.4% |
| Visual Basic (.Net) | 1.8% | 25.5% |
| MATLAB | 1.8% | 24.4% |
| Fortran | 1.7% | 33.1% |
| Groovy | 1.7% | 21.9% |
| Mojo | 1.5% | 45.1% |
| Prolog | 1.5% | 34.1% |
| Objective-C | 1.5% | 21.3% |
| COBOL | 1.5% | 28.0% |
| Delphi | 1.4% | 36.0% |
| VBA | 1.4% | 20.1% |
| Solidity | 1.1% | 41.5% |
| Odin | 0.5% | 82.4% |
| Elm | 0.1% | 94.1% |

In context: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/technology/data.md