IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages 197
An anonymous reader writes Working with computational journalist Nick Diakopoulos, we at IEEE Spectrum have published an app that ranks the popularity of dozens of programming languages. Because different fields have different interests (what's popular with programmers writing embedded code versus what's hot with web developers isn't going to be identical) we tried to make the ranking system as transparent as possible — you can use our presets or you can go in and create your own customized ranking by adjusting the individual weightings of the various data sources we mined.
Not a ranking of what is the best language (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not a ranking of what is the best language (Score:5, Insightful)
GIGO (Score:5, Insightful)
Whether with programming languages or with studies it's the same: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
Select mobile, and you'll find Objective-C listed 16th, 6 places after MATLAB, and two places after Visual Basic. Which is clearly nonsense.
We already have tried and tested (back to 1989!) rankings for this. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php... [tiobe.com]
And Objective-C is currently number three across the board, never mind just mobile.
Re:Not a ranking of what is the best language (Score:2, Insightful)
HTML is a markup language, not a programming language. Jscript is the typical programming language associated with it.
Amazing that people still mix these up.
Re:How did Java beat C (Score:4, Insightful)
how on earth did Java beat out C....... the other hand C is the king of the embedded world, Operating System world ( such as kernels ) and can still rock it on the desktop with C++ and C#.
Because most programming isn't exciting new hip startups, it's not embedded.
Most programming in the world is boring business software. And that is where Java shines, for various reasons. As someone else pointed out, it's like the COBOL of the 21st century.