Programming languages · comparison
C vs Java
Java is used on 223,791 sites, 38 times as many as C (5,832 sites).
In Programming languages, C ranks #9 and Java #3 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, C grew 6.3% and Java grew 0.4%.
6 sites run both: 0.1% of C sites and less than 0.1% of Java sites.
C
C
www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14
- Sites
- 5,832
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.04%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #9
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +6.3%
Ja
Java
java.com
- Sites
- 223,791
- Share of tracked sites
- 1.43%
- Rank in Programming languages
- #3
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.43%
Sites using both
6
sites run C and Java
of C sites0.1%
of Java sites<0.1%
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.