The top 20 languages also included Classic Visual Basic, Groovy, Ruby, Go, Swift, MATLAB, Fortran, R, Perl, and Delphi. Fortran's re-emergence as a top 20 language is notable.

Other changes in this month’s index includes a rise in Visual Basic .NET, JavaScript, Assembly language and Swift. Other languages like C++, C# and PHP are moving down the charts.

Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. Since it was opened, the topic has become ...