Swift Tops List of Most-Loved Languages and Tech

Nerval's Lobster writes Perhaps developers are increasingly overjoyed at the prospect of building iOS apps with a language other than Objective-C, which Apple has positioned Swift to replace; whatever the reason, Swift topped Stack Overflow's recent survey of the "Most Loved" languages and technologies (cited by 77.6 percent of the 26,086 respondents), followed by C++11 (75.6 percent), Rust (73.8 percent), Go (72.5 percent), and Clojure (71 percent). The "Most Dreaded" languages and technologies included Salesforce (73.2 percent), Visual Basic (72 percent), WordPress (68.2 percent), MATLAB (65.6 percent), and SharePoint (62.8 percent). Those results were mirrored somewhat in recent list from RedMonk, a tech-industry analyst firm, which ranked Swift 22nd in popularity among programming languages (based on data drawn from GitHub and Stack Overflow) but climbing noticeably quickly.

Comments

Re:Most-loved or Most-infatuated?

[ameoba]

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses"

Re:Don't see it

[gTsiros]

holy shit

a three-digiter

quick, where's my bug-net, before it flies away

Re:Don't see it

[MassacrE]

Damn, a sub-700-er!

Re:Don't see it

[Enry]

n00b

Re:Don't see it

[jpatters]

Damn, a sub-800-er!