[ImJustAnotherOkie]

As Objective-C goes so does Apple. Even with Swift coming on board, Objective-C is still the foundation for all of Apple’s apps. Apple software development is dying by a thousand cuts.

[PastorBooks]

“While JavaScript and PHP are used for only Web scripting...”

Has the author ever heard of Node? The Javascript ecosystem is huge. And growing fast.

I wouldn’t choose Javascript as a primary language, but you have to give credit where credit is due.

[olepap]

Perl rules!

[PastorBooks]

Meanwhile, in the shadows, Lisp developers continue to write enlightened code. A more elegant weapon, from a more civilized age.

[Azeem]

Java and Python are used to make Minecraft mods. Python is taught to children because it’s easy to read.

PHP runs WordPress. It’s not going anywhere.

And now that Unreal and Unity are “free,” C++ and C# will become more popular.

[ShadowAce]

[McGruff]

“Python can serve as the general scripting language for building scripts and small algorithms”

Give me a real programming language.

[Still Thinking]

Python is nice and quick to bash something out, but it needs a compiler.

[Rio]

Dec 2015	Dec 2014	Change	Programming Language	Ratings	Change
1	2		Java	20.973%	+6.01%
2	1		C	16.460%	-1.13%
3	4		C++	5.943%	-0.16%
4	8		Python	4.429%	+2.14%
5	5		C#	4.114%	-0.21%
6	6		PHP	2.792%	+0.05%
7	9		Visual Basic .NET	2.390%	+0.16%
8	7		JavaScript	2.363%	-0.07%
9	10		Perl	2.209%	+0.38%
10	18		Ruby	2.061%	+1.08%
11	32		Assembly language	1.926%	+1.40%
12	11		Visual Basic	1.654%	-0.15%
13	16		Delphi/Object Pascal	1.639%	+0.52%
14	17		Swift	1.405%	+0.34%
15	3		Objective-C	1.357%	-7.77%
16	20		MATLAB	1.168%	+0.30%
17	15		Pascal	1.147%	-0.03%
18	12		R	1.122%	-0.51%
19	14		PL/SQL	1.103%	-0.23%
20	26		COBOL	0.828%	+0.17%

[Tax-chick]

... [For Programming Techies Only]

Who gave you the authority to exclude snakies?

[nomad]

So they`re making a come back, alright! https://www.youtube.com/user/MontyPython

[Gideon7]

Python is a rare computer programming language in that it is well suited both for casual programmers writing small knocked-together apps and for professional developers working on complex enterprise-level applications.

Python’s popularity is kind of similar to Visual Basic 6 way back when, where even non-programmers could pick up VB6 and quickly be productive with it. (Of course Python is far more elegant and better designed.)

The C++/C#/ObjC languages have steep learning curves, and PHP and JavaScript have their own issues with scalability and weird quirks.

I would recommend Python as the first computer language to learn for anyone serious about going into software programming. After you master Python you can then ‘map’ your mental model onto those other computer languages and pick them up as you go.

[wideminded]

Why does the most popular language have to be named after a snake?

Java is not a good name either.

[SpaceBar]

I resisted Python for years. Something about using indentation in place of curly braces rubs every old school c/c++ programmer the wrong way. I even had a decade-long love affair with Tcl/Tk. A few years ago, I decided to bite the bullet, learn Python, and use it for a medium sized project. I for one am now completely sold on Python for some tasks, and general purpose programming. Prototyping is almost effortless, taking a fraction of the time it used to. Anything that requires speed can be cythonized, or rewritten back in c once the proof of concept is successful. BTW the perl comment upthread had me really laughing out loud. Perl is for masochists, period.

[Lazamataz]

Sexy thread.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Snakes? Pythons!!!!!!