Unlike Java, Python or C, HTML is not a programming language because it lacks variables, conditional statements or iterative loops. But so what? HTML has a bigger role to play.

Despite Python's meteoric rise to claim Tiobe's Programming Language of the Year for 2024, Java has quietly reinforced its position as a critical player in the global developer ecosystem.

Java ranks in the top three most-popular languages across multiple indexes, along with JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.

JavaScript, Python, Java, TypeScript and C# are the most widely used programming languages in GitHub projects, according to GitHub's 2022 Octoverse report. The list of top programming languages on ...