SD Times Blog: C# is the most used programming language at work [Detailed Breakdown Here]

Software Development Times ^ | 08/25/2015 | Christina Mulligan

[SeekAndFind]

C# is making its way past Java as the most popular programming language in the workplace, according to SD Times readers.

While Java sits on top of the TIOBE Programming Community index for August 2015, with C# coming in at No. 4, our latest poll shows C# is the No. 1 language used in the workplace, with Java and C/C++ following.

Out of 1,166 votes, 37% of developers voted for C#, 20% voted for Java, and 17% voted for C/C++. The least-popular programming languages used at work, according to the poll, included Python/Ruby/Perl and Objective-C/Swift.

A more detailed breakdown of the poll results is available below:

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C#?

It uses all the black keys.

You know, the ones that stick up.

:-)

[Tax-chick]

How do you say C#? Is it “C-Number”? “C-Pound”? Or (gag) “C-Hashtag”?

[Tax-chick]

That’s one I forgot, C-Sharp.

[SeekAndFind]

C-SHARP ( as in the musical note ).

[Tax-chick]

Thanks. This is useful information. If batty Pat is going to spend most of his waking hours learning to program, it might as well be the most useful language.

[Nowhere Man]

Bummer, BASIC did not make the list.

[PAR35]

But what languages are the companies actually using? How many are still on COBOL?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: If batty Pat is going to spend most of his waking hours learning to program, it might as well be the most useful language.

Why not learn the top 3 language while he’s at it?

Java and C# are not very far apart when it comes to syntax and capabilities.

Heck C# is simply a derivative of C and C++.

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Same as D flat, only different! :-)

BTW, Stevie Wonder wrote a LOT of his songs in D Flat.

Think about it.

[dfwgator]

The Ballad of Rachel Corrie was written in b flat.

[Tax-chick]

Thanks. I think he’s already learning Java. I don’t pay much attention to his programming. I check on his math progress regularly and force him to engage Language Arts, but his programming is self-directed.

[Tax-chick]

I like C-Major, myself, and 4/4 time.

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LOL...That was a step down for her!

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Works for me! :-)

[dfwgator]

Most of the books i see about teaching programming are in Python, which I find curious.

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Gee.

[posterchild]

Did the poll limit the choices or ask ~1100 people what they use? What they list as ‘least popular’ are still pretty popular. What about Groovy? Scala? Clojure? What about older languages like Ada, Cobol, Lisp, APL? There are many further down the list.

[dfwgator]

I’m curious with the emergence of JavaScript frameworks, like node.js and Angular if JavaScript had grown that much.

[SeekAndFind]

This is the most often looked at site to see the popularity of programming languages:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

They update their ranking monthly.