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What's Today's Top Language? Python... no, Wait, Java... no, C

posted by martyb on Saturday August 05 2017, @03:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the ALL-programmers-know-profanity dept.

mrpg writes:

Among developers, Python is the most popular programming language, followed by C, Java, C++, and JavaScript; among employers, Java is the most sought after, followed by C, Python, C++, and JavaScript.

Or so says the 2017 IEEE Spectrum ranking, published this week.

IEEE Spectrum, a publication of the The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a technical advocacy organization, says it evaluated 12 metrics from 10 sources to arrive at this conclusion.

It claims to have culled data from Google Search, Google Trends, Twitter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Hacker News, CareerBuilder, Dice, and its own digital library.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/21/python_java_c_programming_languages/

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday August 05 2017, @05:48PM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday August 05 2017, @05:48PM (#549147) Homepage

    It's a language designed to make complicated things easy for idiots. And modern college kids most certainly are idiots. They start crying because they don't know where the missing closing parenth goes in a single-nested if statement.

    Guido van Rossum created it because his kid wouldn't stop crying during his programming lessons. Shut the little fucker up, you know?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 05 2017, @06:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 05 2017, @06:52PM (#549162)

    TIL: EF is more of an idiot than anybody thought!

    ** I know I know, some of you may claim you knew EXACTLY how much of an idiot he is, but c'mon, the answer is "endless"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @12:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 06 2017, @12:25AM (#549298)

    Stop the presses! Stupid person makes stupid comment. Again.