JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast

Nerval's Lobster writes Developers assume that Swift, Apple's newish programming language for iOS and Mac OS X apps, will become extremely popular over the next few years. According to new data from RedMonk, a tech-industry analyst firm, Swift could reach that apex of popularity sooner rather than later. While the usual stalwarts—including JavaScript, Java, PHP, Python, C#, C++, and Ruby—top RedMonk's list of the most-used languages, Swift has, well, swiftly ascended 46 spots in the six months since the firm's last update, from 68th to 22nd. RedMonk pulls data from GitHub and Stack Overflow to create its rankings, due to those sites' respective sizes and the public nature of their data. While its top-ranked languages don't trade positions much between reports, there's a fair amount of churn at the lower end of the rankings. Among those "smaller" languages, R has enjoyed stable popularity over the past six months, Rust and Julia continue to climb, and Go has exploded upwards—although CoffeeScript, often cited as a language to watch, has seen its support crumble a bit.

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Re:bleh

[Darinbob]

Most used piece of furniture in large households is the toilet.

Re:68th to 22nd and there are many to go

[MillionthMonkey]

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian are most popular compared to Steven Hawking and Isaac Asimov. Being popular doesn't mean better, useful, or even of any value whatsoever. It just means someone has a better marketing-of-crap department.

Thanks, now I'm imagining Stephen Hawking yelling at his marketing team from that wheelchair. "Why is Kim Kardashian more popular than me? You think her space-time is more curvy than mine?"

Re: Is this a joke? IPhones are dying.

[Anonymous Coward]

This could be the year of the windows des.. umm, ph... err thing.

Shell is the best

[lucm]

I don't know why "Shell" is in only 11th place. It's such a powerful language, it has the whole shebang.

Slashdot 101

[lucm]

that they are less-often corrected?

If you've noticed that, it means that you often read those articles more than once. That's not how Slashdot is supposed to work.

Here is a tutorial:

1) Have a quick look at the new articles. If you manage to read an entire title, click on it, otherwise scroll.

2) Check if the submitter is Bennett. If it's the case, go back to #1.

3) Read the first 2 lines of the summary, and if those contain hyperlinks, move your mouse over the first one to see if it's a reputable domain (but don't click - the idea is just to see if the story is bullshit). If there are many hyperlinks in the first two lines, especially if there is a series of 1-word hyperlinks, go back to #1. In any event don't read more than 2 lines.

4) If there are 10 comments or less, post a Frist! comment. If there are more than 10 but less than 50 comments, post a comment without reading the existing ones. If there are 50 comments or more, find the first 5 Interesting and try to find a weakness in the comment (that's your best way to a 5 Insightful). Don't worry if you don't know the details of what is in the article (or even in the summary), most people don't read those either, and those who do will provide you with the tldr version at some point if you're terribly wrong.

5) If you are bored, scroll to 2/3 of the page and find the first -1 Flamebait. Odds are that it's one of the most interesting comments in the page.

6) If you are still bored and there's nothing left but yro or "answers your questions" stories on the homepage, pick any article, remove the moderation filters and try to find those long rambling homophobic/racist erotica comments, or why not treat yourself to a full read of one of the posts from Mr Hosts file.

There you go. There's plenty to do on Slashdot besides keeping statistics about how often typos are fixed.

Re:not really the whole story

[hcs_$reboot]

What is the longevity of that code (beyond libraries)? Weeks? Months?

Simple. Just peek one of the available functions/vars
$longevity = PhpGetLongevity_days();
$longevity = php_get_long_evity( IN_DAYS );
$longevity = $_SERVER['longevity_days_from_server_variable'];
$longevity = $OBJ.__what_isMyLongevity();