What is the most popular programming language

Evaluation of the popularity of programming languages is dedicated article The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2018

By the number of tags on Stack Overflow and the number of projects per GitHub was the result in early 2018 :

1 JavaScript
2 Java
3 Python
4 PHP
5 C#
6 C++
7 CSS
8 Ruby
9 C
10 Swift
10 Objective-C
12 Shell
12 R
14 TypeScript
14 Scala
16 Go
17 PowerShell
18 Perl
19 Haskell
20 Lua

Popularity ranking on the page IEEE Spectrum’s fifth annual interactive ranking of the top programming languages.

1 Python
2 C++
3 C
4 Java
5 C#
6 PHP
7 R
8 JavaScript
9 Go
10 Assembly