IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages

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.

Comments

Not a ranking of what is the best language

[Meshach]

But more a ranking of what are the most talked about / downloaded / popular.

Re:Not a ranking of what is the best language

[Samantha Wright]

...And somehow, HTML is both on the list and lower than Java. Anyone got any theories?

GIGO

[BasilBrush]

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...
And Objective-C is currently number three across the board, never mind just mobile.

Re:GIGO

[iggymanz]

here are more realistic non-Apple biased list, your Objective-C pushed way done into the fringe where it belongs. Anyone who has been around in IT knows Objective C doesn't even come up outside of Apple development (and really there aren't many of those compared to finance, engineering, healthcare and web developers in the world

http://langpop.com/
http://blog.codeeval.com/codee...

Re:Best editor?

[DMUTPeregrine]

Well, it's certainly better than timothy...