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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: 2) by Pino P on Monday September 16 2019, @05:41PM (1 child)
Provided that corporate IT allows installation thereof.
Apple's App Store Review Guidelines require all* web browsers on iOS and iPadOS to wrap the system WebKit library. This means all other web browsers for iOS and iPadOS have the same level of web standards support as Safari for that version of iOS and iPadOS, no more, no less.
And many of these organizations have very conservative IT departments that don't want anything but IE installed on corporate workstations. They prefer to pay web application operators to maintain support for IE rather than pay to manage Chrome on their own workstations. This will diminish in January 2023 once Windows 8.1 leaves extended support.
* I am aware of one exception: Opera Mini skirts the Guidelines by rendering web pages on a proxy server and sending the rendered page in a simplified form to the device. But people who choose Opera Mini probably do so because they don't need to run script-driven web applications but only view static or form-driven websites.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday September 16 2019, @06:23PM
The IT departments serve the needs of the corporation, not the other way around. Or heads need to roll.
If the corporation is using an app that requires, let's say, FireFox, then it is IT's job to make that happen, or give the higher ups advice on why this is a bad idea, bad for business, not cost effective, or other very good reasons why.
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