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Most loved programming languages of 2022 and which companies use them

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Re: Most loved programming languages of 2022 and which companies use them

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These lists are funny because they're not necessarily the most popular languages that people get paid to write or profitable to know. It’s interesting to me because it shows me how small of a world I am in! I loved how vb6 and VBScript had so many users for so many years, but it’s not something people wrote about in comparison to its use. Around 2006 I really looked hard at getting at most hirable backend dev languages. If you searched this online it was PHP all the way, but ASP.NET books were outselling like 20 to one for PHP. People like to write about, and there was a history of PHP, ASP.NET was making the money. When I looked at computer vision scripting 2014 Matlab was on top if you were looking back, but really Python was the place to be.

This is really interesting to me, because they have not crossed my path: #1: Rust #2: Elixir (Farmbot is listed as a top company :-)) #3: Clojure #5: Julia #8: Go

My goto langanges: #6: Python #9: SQL(This is like comparing beer types to water. SQL is useful everywhere and tastes great!) #10: C# (I include VB.net because the backend is the same at this point)

Maybe once or twice, as I am not a front end guy: #4: TypeScript

Delphi Really? Why do I always see this on current lists? There are whole worlds out there I just don’t visit. I mean yes I used this, but on 90s Windows GUI stuff! #7: Delphi

Stuff I use not on the list: Shell/C/C++/Javascript

Re: Most loved programming languages of 2022 and which companies use them

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These lists are funny because they're not necessarily the most popular languages that people get paid to write or profitable to know. It’s interesting to me because it shows me how small of a world I am in! I loved how vb6 and VBScript had so many users for so many years, but it’s not something people wrote about in comparison to its use. Around 2006 I really looked hard at getting at most hirable backend dev languag…

Even I am surprised when I first started looking at this list. There is a subtle line between most used vs most loved :) . I think in one sense, this also depends on the community at which stackoverflow has surveyed. This list is based on 71,467 responses and possibly most of them might be within the community of stackoverflow (original source: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-loved-...). When it comes to love vs high use, I think that's where things can be a bit tricky.