[Yaelle]

My 13 year old wants to learn Python.

[Democrats hate too much]

"Most popular tech among back-end devs: javascript"

-What???

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I’ll stick with good ol’ vbs, thank you. If it works, do not ‘fix’ it! ;-)

[Leaning Right]

I finally got the hang of MS-Basic. Why the heck isn’t that on the list?

[Cementjungle]

In my last 4 or 5 years of working for a big company I used C# for my major systems, and was really impressed with the performance... especially since its not a true compiled language like C or others.

I don't really consider JS or SQL to be true programming languages in the truest sense... JS is a scripting language, and SQL is a query language although you can write pretty complex stuff in stored procedures and so on. I used both in conjunction with my applications that were mainly written in C#.

[IronJack]

So, put simply, Java rules.

[ctdonath2]

Keep an eye on Swift, the new growing language for mobile (dominating Apple work, coming soon to Android). Good replacement for C/C++/Objective-C, may challenge Java et al.

[sleepwalker]

Showing my age.... but this is a fact

The front ends are all Java, JavaScript. WebSphere is used. DB2 is the DBMS.

the back-end, where the heavy lifting is done,is Cobol....

[central_va]

Java script on the back end? Wait, what!?

[Paine in the Neck]

Where’s LISP? I don’t see any mention of LISP!

[DigitalVideoDude]

What is the definition of ‘tech’ in this context? I thought this was about programming languages. For instance:

“Most popular tech among mobile devs”

iOS is not a programming language, it’s an operating system.
You program in Objective C or Swift for iOS devices.

[glorgau]

Q: What’s the favorite computer language of pirates?

A: R

[Snowybear]

This just goes to show you why Obama is President and why rap music is popular. Javascript is absolute crap. VB script is absolute crap. Python is beyond crap, it's a flaming bag of crap. Gee, why program in full Java or VB when I can program with a very small slice of the functionality? Did these people get hit in the head with a shovel too many times as a baby? C# and Java are good stuff. If you know one it's easy to go to the other one. But anything script is pathetic garbage. I don't understand the Python craze at all. Dictionaries? PLEASE! Yeah because arrays are too easy or something. I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay I work as a dishwasher because I can't program for crap and man I love Java and VB script! And by the way, Powershell is what DCL (think VMS) used to be, it just took Microstink 30 years to catch up to it, and that's even with David Cutler.

[Organic Panic]

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.

[Yo-Yo]

[unlearner]

Seems to be some confusion between Java and Javascript. They are very different.

[Notforprophet]

Seeing how SQL is not a programming language, this list is bunk.

[DungeonMaster]

I always loved working in Assembly Language. But not Intel.

[bruin66]

What about SNOBOL? JOVIAL? APL? INTERCOM? SWAC machine code?