The most popular programming languages in the world

[Jamie McKane]

The most popular programming languages in the world

JavaScript remains the most popular programming language in the world, according to Amazon's State of the Developer Nation Survey for 2019.

The language has more than 12 million users worldwide and is one of the fastest-growing programming languages globally - growing by 3 million developers between Q4 2017 and Q4 2019.

 

[cguy]

Gotta get me some JS!

 

[garyc]

It would be interesting to see a further breakdowns per sector. The engineering sector that I work in does not use all of the languages from that list, mainly Python and C/C++. In addition, lots of Matlab, Labview and Fortran with some R.

 

[cguy]

It would be interesting to see a further breakdowns per sector. The engineering sector that I work in does not use all of the languages from that list, mainly Python and C/C++. In addition, lots of Matlab, Labview and Fortran with some R.

Agreed - it's like reading a survey on most frequently purchased cars, and finding out that the answer is "blue ones".

 

[Compton_effect]

Gee - and here I am migrating a clunky Javascript app to C#.

 

[hj007]

Gotta get me some JS!

Are you mainly coding in C, cguy?

 

[P924]

Agreed - it's like reading a survey on most frequently purchased cars, and finding out that the answer is "blue ones".

Actually, it's "silver ones".

 

[cguy]

Are you mainly coding in C, cguy?

Probably mostly C++, but also pure C, Python and R. Big fan of C though.

 

[Web-Guy]

i think javascipt is growing because of frameworks on top of it like Vue and Anguler etc

 

[Herr der Verboten]

The most popular programming languages in the world

JavaScript remains the most popular programming language in the world, according to Amazon's State of the Developer Nation Survey for 2019.

The language has more than 12 million users worldwide and is one of the fastest-growing programming languages globally - growing by 3 million developers between Q4 2017 and Q4 2019.

Let me GC that for you.

 

[r4nd0m]

Probably mostly C++, but also pure C, Python and R. Big fan of C though.

I so envy you. Writing my favorite language, but I can never seem to find postings for them. Do you integrate any ASM with it?

 

[cguy]

I so envy you. Writing my favorite language, but I can never seem to find postings for them. Do you integrate any ASM with it?

Yup, extensively. Intrinsics where possible, but often just asm.

 

[rustypup]

How the is javascript a "programming" language?

 

[Genisys]

How the is javascript a "programming" language?

It is a programming language, and a very useful one as well. Not my go to, but many think its the best language for general tasks.

 

[rustypup]

It is a programming language

It's a scripting language. Run from within the confines of an interpreter developed in a programming language.

 

[cguy]

It's a scripting language. Run from within the confines of an interpreter developed in a programming language.

I believe that these days it is JITed. Also, scripting languages are programming languages.

 

[Hamster]

How the is javascript a "programming" language?

What?

 

[Thor]

How the is javascript a "programming" language?

Ever heard of node?

 

[Herr der Verboten]

Ever heard of node?

Node is a programming language

 

[RedViking]

Why don't we ask Wikipedia. Wikipedia is always right: