{"id":159089,"date":"2016-03-29T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=159089"},"modified":"2016-03-30T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T06:00:14","slug":"top-programming-languages-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/159089-top-programming-languages-in-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Top programming languages in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stack Overflow recently published the results of its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/research\/developer-survey-2016#technology-most-popular-technologies\" target=\"_blank\">annual developer survey<\/a><\/strong>, revealing its findings on the most popular programming languages.<\/p>\n<p>Over 50,000 developers from 173 countries responded to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>Stack Overflow said it also augmented some of the results with insights from the activity of its\u00a040 million monthly visitors.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0found that JavaScript remains the most popular technology among developers, with SQL and SQL Server a close second.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPHP appears to be falling out of favour as Node and Angular emerge,\u201d said Stack Overflow.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-top-technologies.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159091\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-top-technologies.jpg\" alt=\"StackOverflow 2016 - top technologies\" width=\"613\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-top-technologies.jpg 613w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-top-technologies-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-top-technologies-594x430.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular tech among full-stack devs<\/h3>\n<p>Stack Overflow\u2019s report also showed which technologies were most popular among developers who identify as full-stack, front-end, back-end, mobile, math and data, or as a student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJavaScript is the most commonly-used programming language on earth.\u00a0Even back-end developers are more likely to use it than any other language.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-full-stack-languages.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159103\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159103\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-full-stack-languages.jpg\" alt=\"StackOverflow 2016 - full stack languages\" width=\"613\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular tech among front-end devs<\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-front-end-languages.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159101\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159101\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-front-end-languages.jpg\" alt=\"StackOverflow 2016 - front end languages\" width=\"613\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular tech among back-end devs<\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-back-end-languages.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159099\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159099\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-back-end-languages.jpg\" alt=\"StackOverflow 2016 - back end languages\" width=\"613\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular tech among mobile devs<\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-mobile-languages.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159097\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159097\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-mobile-languages.jpg\" alt=\"StackOverflow 2016 - mobile languages\" width=\"613\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular tech among math and data devs<\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-math-and-data-languages.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159095\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159095\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-math-and-data-languages.jpg\" alt=\"StackOverflow 2016 - math and data languages\" width=\"613\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular tech among students<\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-student-languages.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159093\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/StackOverflow-2016-student-languages.jpg\" alt=\"StackOverflow 2016 - student languages\" width=\"613\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on developers and programming<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/157199-embarcadero-delphi-named-developer-language-of-choice-for-south-african-schools.html\"><strong>Embarcadero Delphi named developer language of choice for South African schools<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/154628-operator-a-new-font-for-programmers.html\"><strong>Operator: a new font for programmers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/152037-top-10-programming-languages-for-2016.html\"><strong>Top 10 programming languages for 2016<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/150301-radical-new-programming-campus-in-south-africa-taking-shape.html\"><strong>Radical new programming campus in South Africa taking shape<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/146511-most-popular-programming-languages.html\"><strong>Most popular programming languages<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of Stack Overflow\u2019s annual survey show the most popular programming languages among developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13803,35,32376,29684],"class_list":["post-159089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-developers","tag-headline","tag-programming-languages","tag-stack-overflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159121,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159089\/revisions\/159121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}