Posted on 04/13/2008 12:12:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Editor’s Note: Our friends over at Red Canary (http://www.redcanary.ca/view/top-10-programming) conducted a public forum with entrepreneurs and founders, like you, to find out what will be the top (most relevant, most used) programming languages in 2013. The results are in, we think they are worth reviewing for your strategic planning, and future hiring needs. (If you haven’t yet, do check out Red Canary (http://www.redcanary.ca/) so you can vote on the #1 language yourself (http://www.redcanary.ca/view/top-10-programming). Red Canary is full of other very useful content, and we really like their tagline, “opportunity meets community,” which expresses an ethos complimentary to Found|READ’s own mission.)
While digging around in the archives of Red Canary’s predecessor-site, Editor Trevor Stafford came across a ranked list of programming languages that were most in demand by employers in 2001. So Trevor posted the top-10 languages on Red Canary and asked his readers to vote on which of these languages would be most relevant in the future. Then he conducted the poll again, with the help of other entrepreneurial groups, like YCombinator.
For your ease, I’ve published the most recent results of Trevor’s poll, first.
TOP PROGRMAMING LANGUAGES FOR 2013
Here’s the list after 2 weeks of voting and an influx of opinions from Californian startup types (thank you, yCombinator). Python is the biggest mover.
1. HTML/CSS 7.6
2. Javascript 7.3
3. Ajax 7.2
4. Python 6.9
5. Java 6.7
6. C# 6.7
7. Ruby 6.2
8. .Net 6.0
9. C++ 5.4
10. C 5.1
10 = extremely relevant
1 = irrelevant
Note: Even though Ajax and CSS/HTML are markup tools, not programming languages, I couldn’t put a list like this together without them, and I couldn’t come up with an umbrella term for everything. Future technologies? Yuck. If you wanted to get really picky you could point out that transact-sql is merely a language extension. So is PL/SQL. Javascript might even warrant an argument. Please don’t get that picky, however. One Red Canary reader asked for Haskell to be added, but it didn’t make the top 10.
Below is the list Trevor started with, based on what was most valued, six years ago.
I. MOST POPULAR LANGUAGES (BASED ON EMPLOYER DEMAND) 2001
1. C++
2. Windows NT4
3. Oracle
4. Java
5. HTML
6. ASP
7. Visual Basic 6
8. DB2
9. Cobol
10. ANSI-C
Seeing that list got me to thinking about the nature and future of coding. What languages or splinter languages would dominate the list in 2013? Certainly not Cobol and ANSI-C :) Where will .Net and Java be in 6 years? What about xml and the surging popularity of Ajax? Will PERL and Lisp coders be able to transition to Ruby? Will they need to? What about young languages like Lua?
I’m not smart enough to see into 2013’s crystal ball, so here’s a list of 20-odd languages. Assign up to 10 stars to as many languages as you like (according to how relevant they will be in 6 years).
II. AFTER 1 WEEK OF VOTING
Here are the predicted top 10 languages of 2013 after almost one week of voting:
1. Java 7.7 (avg. stars)
2. C# 7.7
3. HTML/CSS 7.4
4. .Net 6.9
5. Ajax 6.8
6. Javascript 6.2
7. Transact-SQL 6.0
8. C++ 5.5
9. Ruby 5.4
10. PL/SQL 5.4
III. AFTER 2 WEEKS OF VOTING:
1. HTML/CSS 7.6
2. Javascript 7.3
3. Ajax 7.2
4. Python 6.9
5. Java 6.7
6. C# 6.7
7. Ruby 6.2
8. .Net 6.0
9. C++ 5.4
10. C 5.1
Remember, this is not a list of today’s most popular languages, but which languages you think will be dominant in 2013.
One hell of a cleaner though. Works on most kitchen/bathroom surfaces ...
Proud to be Foldin'
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Heck of a good soccer team, too.
Same rule as always. The best language is the one you learned last.
No microcode?
APL
PL1
Fortran
Pascal
Cobol
GWBasic
I guess I’m a little out of date.
Being a BASIC and FORTRAN programmer in the past, I’m wondering if C# is good for musical programs?
I’m banking on .NET in all it’s flavors, with any front end tool like Flash or Quicksilver, and T-SQL on the back end.
Not officially, no. But when do the building-blocks of the language compound enough to make it qualitatively different? When assembly-code was improved enough, they called it c.
Microsoft Silverlight may wind up being the "Flash Killer", I do like the fact that to program Silverlight, you can use C#, instead of having to learn ActionScript to do Adobe Flex apps.
THATS what I was thinking of. SILVERLIGHT! Damn. I’m getting dum in my old ayg.
Thanks, no I’m not updated on D, and I have not done any real coding for the last 7 years or so.
Your kind of party?
Couldn’t find anything at that link, but it looks like a news page, so the article may have got pushed off the end.
What I would like to see is compiled Python, with a little stronger typing, or at least an option for it.
Thinking’s corrollary: “Now that we have a sale, we don’t need salesmen.”
Hee hee! You forgot PASCAL.
No I didn’t . . . I HATE PASCAL!
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