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Every programming language we track in the HN Who's Hiring dataset. Ranked by mentions in May 2026; click through for full mention history, common stacks, and peer comparison.

§ 0153 languages tracked

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  • 01Python54-5%
  • 02TypeScript38-27%
  • 03Go23+10%
  • 04Rust12-25%
  • 05JavaScript9-36%
  • 06Java7-30%
  • 07C++6-40%
  • 08SQL6-40%
  • 09C5-44%
  • 10Ruby5+0%
  • 11C#3-57%
  • 12GraphQL3-75%
  • 13HTML/CSS3-40%
  • 14Scala3+50%
  • 15Elixir2+100%
  • 16Kotlin2-33%
  • 17PHP2+0%
  • 18Swift2+0%
  • 19Assembly1+0%
  • 20Dart1—
  • 21Lua1—
  • 22R1+0%
  • 23Zig1—
  • 24Ada0—
  • 25Apex (Salesforce)0-100%
  • 26Bash/Shell0—
  • 27COBOL0—
  • 28Clojure0—
  • 29Crystal0—
  • 30Delphi0—
  • 31Erlang0—
  • 32F#0—
  • 33Fortran0—
  • 34Groovy0—
  • 35Hack (Meta)0—
  • 36Haskell0—
  • 37Julia0—
  • 38Lisp0—
  • 39MATLAB0—
  • 40Mojo0—
  • 41Nix0—
  • 42OCaml0—
  • 43Objective-C0—
  • 44Odin0—
  • 45Perl0—
  • 46PowerShell0—
  • 47Prolog0—
  • 48Sass0-100%
  • 49Scheme0—
  • 50Solidity0—
  • 51V (Vlang)0—
  • 52VBA0—
  • 53c++230—
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An independent analysis of the monthly “Who’s Hiring” threads on Hacker News. Published on the first Monday of each month since 2012.

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