2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by julenx » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 8:59 AM UTC

2017 Top Programming Languages
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Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by threepipeproblm » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 12:28 PM UTC

I love Haskell, but... Haskell is about as popular as SQL? That makes no sense.

Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by rajangdavis » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 12:31 PM UTC

Surprised that Python eclipses everything... or am I reading this wrong?

Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by melling » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 12:35 PM UTC

Swift is already in the top 10. I don't think it has been widely adopted as a cross-platform language yet.

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Post by uyoakaoma » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 12:47 PM UTC

rajangdavis wrote: post #3

Surprised that Python eclipses everything... or am I reading this wrong?

It depends. If you changed the ranking there are some instances where it is trailing i.e jobs

Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by Ingon » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 12:51 PM UTC

melling wrote: post #4

Swift is already in the top 10. I don't think it has been widely adopted as a cross-platform language yet.

I think Swift has the potential (and the chops) to become big. IBM (and a few others) is really pushing hard on adopting it as a server side language, their Ubuntu support is pretty good, but some Windows/Android support will be welcome for sure.

Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by mirekrusin » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 12:58 PM UTC

Something's fishy with this ranking, ie. web-only list has "Processing" before "Clojure", "PHP" before "Ruby" and "Go", for enterprise-only "C" before "Java" - I don't buy it, this data looks like garbage.

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Post by diego_moita » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 1:00 PM UTC

I don't understand these kind of rankings. What are you supposed to conclude from them?

My point is that computer programming as an industry is so diverse and complex that these general comparisons become almost useless.

Some examples:

* If you live in a town with lots of government agencies and big corporations then it is a lot more important to understand some obscure Java or .Net framework than even mainstream languages like C or C++.

* If you live in a place with a big financial industry or hardware development then probably understanding the arcane details of C++ and compiler idiosyncrasies is more useful than any web-related language.

Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by k__ » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 1:01 PM UTC

mirekrusin wrote: post #7

Something's fishy with this ranking, ie. web-only list has "Processing" before "Clojure", "PHP" before "Ruby" and "Go", for enterprise-only "C" before "Java" - I don't buy it, this data looks like garbage.

yes, looks completely unrepresentative to me

Re: 2017 Top Programming Languages

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Post by FRex » Fri, Jul 21, 2017, 1:01 PM UTC

Ingon wrote: post #6

melling wrote: post #4

Swift is already in the top 10. I don't think it has been widely adopted as a cross-platform language yet.

I think Swift has the potential (and the chops) to become big. IBM (and a few others) is really pushing hard on adopting it as a server side language, their Ubuntu support is pretty good, but some Windows/Android support will be welcome for sure.

Which one? There are two languages named Swift:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(parallel_scripting_lang...