Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014 • Hacker News Board

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by lucb1e » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 5:06 PM UTC

Most popular of 2014? Isn't this a bit... early?

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by alagappanr » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 5:07 PM UTC

stox wrote: post #24

Python is #1, I never thought I would live to see the day.

Though I'd love to see the day come, it really hasn't dawned on us yet. This ranking is based on a small subset of data viz. codeeval submissions, so hardly conclusive.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by jayvanguard » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 5:08 PM UTC

peteratt wrote: post #16

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

It doesn't. Their methodology is just broken.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

jayvanguard wrote: post #17

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'.

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Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by aioprisan » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

Depends how you define "popular". Perhaps activity on GitHub is more fitting, where JS wins, hands-down: http://adambard.com/blog/top-github-languages-for-2013-so-fa...

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by gms7777 » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 5:11 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.

I don't think its necessarily poorly named, given that it is published on the CodeEval blog and in the first line of the article, in bold, they name the source of their data. Its not a great title for an HN submission though as that context is missing.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by meritt » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 5:16 PM UTC

nctime wrote: post #29

meritt wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, I'd argue that Python specifically has a substantial userbase from the mathematics, statistics and econometric world that rarely bleeds over to other languages, and those people tend to exist more densely in larger organizations. It's just a heavily biased article is all. We could do a poll on HN and you'd see a dramatically different landscape. I bet C# wouldn't even register on the graph.

>We could do a poll on HN and you'd see a dramatically different landscape. I bet C# wouldn't even register on the graph. You'd lose that bet. Here are two HN polls. http://readwrite.com/2012/06/05/5-ways-to-tell-which-program... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3746692 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6527104

Nice, I stand corrected (and definitely would have lost that bed!) That's a considerably larger population of C# users than I would have expected from the startup-centric HN userbase.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by Too » Mon, Feb 03, 2014, 8:06 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.

While we are at it, 2014 has barely even started.

Re: Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014

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Post by abc_lisper » Tue, Feb 04, 2014, 2:03 AM UTC

The title is misleading. If any, it reinforces the fact that python is a good language for solving puzzles, writing scripts, and may be small projects.