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Python sits firmly in top place in the newest annual ranking of popular programming languages by IEEE Spectrum.
The ranking and others like it are meant to help developers understand the popularity of languages in a world where no one really knows what programmers are using on their laptops.
IEEE Spectrum has placed Python in first spot since 2017, and last year it was just ahead of C++. The top language is given a score of 100, and all languages with lower scores are scaled in relation to it. C++ last year scored 99.7, followed by Java at 97.5, and C with 96.7.
Today, in the IEEE Spectrum's sixth annual ranking, Python's 100 is a long way ahead of runner-up Java's 96.3 score, while C is in third place with 94.4. C++ has slipped to fourth with 87.5, while in fifth is specialist statistical computing language R with a score of 81.5.
The magazine for engineering members of IEEE, the world's biggest engineering and applied-science organization, attributes Python's popularity to the vast number of specialized libraries it has, especially for developers building artificial-intelligence applications.
[...] They go on to note that Facebook, which was originally built with PHP, launched its alternative to PHP, Hack, in 2014 and since then JavaScript, TypeScript and Python have become the most popular languages for web development.
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday September 16 2019, @03:34PM (1 child)
VB.Net is # 6 on this list, so, it worked out just fine.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Monday September 16 2019, @08:15PM
That is interesting. In 2007, I went to one of our Canadian offices, because they had a couple extra seats available in a training. It was a different business unit in the company, one that dealt with city utility billing. They were converting some VB software to dot-NET. The trainers definitely knew their stuff. Presented both C# and VB.NET. It became clear that if you mostly need to rewrite, to VB.NET, then why not just go to C#. C# would probably be more widely used than VB.NET (as seen from 2007). VB.NET looks like VB in syntax only, but a lot of things must be changed.
Another observation I made was how remarkably similar C# was to Java.
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