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Every year, the IEEE Spectrum Top Programming Languages ranking provides a snapshot of what truly matters in the global software ecosystem. In the 2025 list, SQL jumped from No. 9 in 2024 to hold the No. 4 spot, just behind Python, Java and C++. That placement is remarkable, given SQL’s age and its specialized scope.
In this context, the data tells a deeper story: Across decades of innovation, SQL endures as the backbone of enterprise analytics, unmatched in efficiency for representing and querying data at scale. I’ve written about why…
