Programming language popularity on Reddit

As a quick measure of programming language popularity, let's see how many people are in some of the Reddit communities!

no.	Language	members
1	JavaScript	2,400,000
2	Python	1,200,000
3	Java	310,000
4	C++	263,000
5	Rust	260,000
6	NodeJS	248,000
7	C#	236,000
8	Go	227,000
9	SQL	165,000
10	PHP	163,000
11	C	149,000
12	.NET	149,000
13	Flutter	120,000
14	TypeScript	116,000
15	Swift	108,000
16	Ruby	82,000
17	Haskell	76,600
18	Kotlin	74,800
19	MATLAB	54,000
20	Scala	51,500
21	HTML	47,000
22	Lisp	37,900
23	R	37,300
24	Clojure	31,700
25	Elixir	27,600
26	Julia	24,200
27	Lua	19,300
28	Perl	16,500
29	Assembly	16,400
30	Scratch	15,400
31	OCaml	11,000
32	F#	10,900
33	Zig	10,500
34	Deno	9,800
35	Visual Basic	8,700
36	Ada	8,500
37	Prolog	8,200
38	Racket	7,800
39	Scheme	7,800
40	Common Lisp	7,000
41	Fortran	6,900
42	Nim	6,600
43	Crystal	4,400
44	Delphi	3,900
45	Cobol	3,500
46	Pascal	2,100
47	Raku	1,400
48	Dart	1,300
49	VBScript	1,100
50	Guile	646

Some of these languages might have multiple Reddit communities and some have only one. This will have an impact on the number of each community.

I've also included HTML and SQL, just to allow people to debate if they are programming languages and a few things that seemed interesting proxies.

These days my primary interest is Rust.

See also the Subreddit stats for more details on each subreddit.

See also the live programming languages subscribers count from the multireddit-subscribers.

See also the GitHub Stats.

See also the Stack Overflow trends.