Most Popular Programming Languages at Hackathons

In the recent years, the number of hackathons have risen at a fast pace. At these hackathons, budding as well as experienced programmers stay awake for days- living on coffee and Pizza- they make and break codes. So, which are the most popular programming languages at hackathons? And, which hardware, platforms and APIs are used the most by programmers at hackathons? Today, we are going to share these answers with you.


Devpost- formerly known as ChallengePost- is a tool that is used as a backend infra for the biggest and most popular hackathons. Recently,Devpost released tons of data about the preferences of programmers at hackathons. This data includes questions like what mobile platforms used at hackathons the most? Which APIs do people use most often? Which are the popular programming languages at hackathons? 

Devpost’s digital infrastructure is used at most student hackathons and engineering schools. To rank the technologies, data of 13,281 students from 160 hackathons and 9,898 projects was used.

Talking about the mobile platform was Android with 38.2% followed by iOS 22.7%. Windows Phone too has a considerable amount of share of 4.9%.

So Which are the most popular programming languages,

1. HTML/CSS (HTML isn’t quite a “programming” language — it’s a markup language. But, it’s still a “language” and used by all web developers. And.. Devpost added in their list.)
2. JavaScript
3. Python
4. Java
5. C/C++
6. PHP
7. Objective-C
8. C#
9. Swift
10. JSON (not a programming language, but is on Devpost’s most popular programming languages at Hackathons list)
11. Ruby