IEEE Spectrum Ranks the Top Programming Languages

Posted by Unknown on Saturday July 5, 2014 @07:49AM from the lisp-is-number-one dept.

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.

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Not a ranking of what is the best language by Meshach · 2014-07-05 07:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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1. Re:Not a ranking of what is the best language by Samantha+Wright · 2014-07-05 07:54 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  ...And somehow, HTML is both on the list and lower than Java. Anyone got any theories?
  
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