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Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by timje1 » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

inglor wrote: post #2

That's not really a good estimate... Just submissions in codeeval

Agreed, it's not a very well labeled article. 'Programming Languages most submitted to CodeEval in 2014' would be better.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by yulaow » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

topbanana wrote: post #6

I really don't see why C# usage would have jumped by 100% last year. And I don't believe the 900% jump in the previous year. This probably shows they landed a big Microsoft shop as a customer in 2012 and a smaller one in 2013.

In reality I can see it perfectly. And that's probably thanks to windows phone. Here in EU windows phone has almost a 10% of marketshare on each state (in some also more than 15% and more than IOS).

The last year I and my startup would develop our app only for ios and android. When wp went over the 5-6% our investors ask us to develop also for it asap.

For what I know, almost all startups in my incubator, which are working in the mobile app field, are now focusing in that platform while the previous year no one of them was considering it.

And something like it is happening also for w8.

So yes, i think a +100% is also a low esteem

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by dmlorenzetti » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

girvo wrote: post #7

I find that table super hard to parse :( is that just me?

At least they provide a table. The chart is just terrible, made by somebody who cares more about visual entertainment than about conveying information.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by rch » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 4:24 PM UTC

justincormack wrote: post #8

Here is a different set of measures that puts JavaScript first, followed by Java http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/01/22/language-rankings-1-14...

I really like the 'open research' model Red Monk aspires to. Their rankings fit my expectations better than those in the linked article too.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by shortsightedsid » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

timje1 wrote: post #11

inglor wrote: post #2

That's not really a good estimate... Just submissions in codeeval

Agreed, it's not a very well labeled article. 'Programming Languages most submitted to CodeEval in 2014' would be better.

Absolutely.

Consider the talk around wearables. Most wearables would be small devices running a bit of code. Maybe some of them will be hackable. Are the current generation of wearables powerful enough to run anything other than C (or maybe C++)? Nope. That's because most would be either small microcontroller or small ARM devices. If you take that trend and the fact that codeeval says its javascript - makes no sense.

So, submissions in codeeval should be title for sure.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by peteratt » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 4:26 PM UTC

Very surprised by that 1.2% of Haskell share, shame they didn't have data from previous years.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by jayvanguard » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 4:28 PM UTC

This is so completely utterly broken I don't know why they publish it each year. At least try to fix it so it matches our current planet.

Surely they can tell that javascript and objective-c with their overlap with 'web', 'dhtml', 'jquery', 'ios', 'iphone', etc. and other such terms are skewed compared to the easily disambiguated 'python'.