Top programming languages: This coding favourite just topped the list again The most popular coding language has now become the standard choice for many projects.

One of the biggest programming languages has dropped out of the top three, according to one of the lists used to track coders' favourites.

Although Microsoft programming languages fared quite well in Stack Overflow's huge new developer survey, Visual Basic 6 was again named the 'most dreaded' language -- just like last year, and the year ...

The Stack Overflow Developer Survey asked about the programming languages people have no interest in continuing to work with. Here's what they said.

The programming languages that are in highest demand, from Google's Go to Python to Apple Swift and PHP.