Posted on 04/20/2016 9:31:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stack Overflow recently published the results of its annual developer survey, revealing its findings on the most popular programming languages.
Over 50,000 developers from 173 countries responded to the survey.
Stack Overflow said it also augmented some of the results with insights from the activity of its 40 million monthly visitors.
It found that JavaScript remains the most popular technology among developers, with SQL and SQL Server a close second.
“PHP appears to be falling out of favour as Node and Angular emerge,” said Stack Overflow.
Stack Overflow’s 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.
“JavaScript is the most commonly-used programming language on earth. Even back-end developers are more likely to use it than any other language.”
Nah. With all the “$15 an hour now” minimum wage increases I will be hiring people who can program PLCs for my burger making machines (small adaptations from my current products) and G-code to run my CNC machines. Coders are a dime a dozen now and there are 2 billion of them in China and India. Hard to find a PLC programmer.
‘VBS’.
You code in Vacation Bible School?
There are only a finite number of people who are willing to code for a living. I’ve known a lot of people with IT degrees who “weren’t technical”.
Even in India, there are not that many people who can code. Even growing up speaking English, they have trouble converting specs to code
No Environment or Data Division?
It must have been 20yrs ago I used Netscape’s Livewire, essentially server side javascript for dynamic web pages (database connectivity).
http://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/livewire.html
I remember the good old days of typing: LOAD’’*’’,8,1
I want that shirt!!!!
Reminds me of when C++ came out. Not to be outdone, the COBOL folks came out with Add One to COBOL.
“You code in Vacation Bible School?”
I know that you are teasing but for those who are not in the know: ‘VBS’ = ‘Visual Basic Script’. ;-)
Seems to be some confusion between Java and Javascript. They are very different.
Or the days of taking the right deck of cards, loading them into the reader and pressing the "START" button.
Ah yes, David Cutler. DEC let him go down the road with ‘Pink” and no one said a word.
Seeing how SQL is not a programming language, this list is bunk.
I always loved working in Assembly Language. But not Intel.
What about SNOBOL? JOVIAL? APL? INTERCOM? SWAC machine code?
RE: What about SNOBOL? JOVIAL? APL? INTERCOM? SWAC machine code?
I’m sure they’er being used in some obscure academic places or old companies, but if it’ a programming or software development career one wants, I doubt if a search in any of the job sites will even result in any of these names coming up...
“I always loved working in Assembly Language. But not Intel.”
Me too. MC6809E
6803 was the one I started with. I loved that little thing.
Maybe not, but I used to build a lot of powerful, blazing-fast Transact-SQL stored procedures that contained a large percentage of a small investment management firm's business logic. It kept them committed to SQL Server, true, but it wasn't like they would have benefitted from switching to Oracle or MySQL, anyway.
Most developers use about 5% of Transact-SQL's capabilities.
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