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Survey: JavaScript is the Most-Used Language, But Java is the Most Popular (sdtimes.com)
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Java remains the most popular primary programming language, but JavaScript is the most used programming language overall. That is according to a recently released report from JetBrains on the State of the Developer Ecosystem in 2018. The report surveyed more than 6,000 developers from 17 countries to reveal the trends driving the world of coding this year... According to the report, Java, JavaScript and Python are the top three programming languages this year, and Go is the most promising language. Twenty percent of developers use multiple versions of Go at the same time, and 26 percent set up their GOPATH per project. The top Go frameworks include Gin, Beego, Echo and Buffalo.
While 38 percent of developers have no plans to adopt any new languages this year, the top languages respondents have started to learn in the last year include Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, TypeScript and Kotlin... Eighty-two percent of respondents use IDEs while 69 percent use editors. Of those using IDEs and editors, only 12 percent cited that they don't customize their IDE/editors. In addition, 77 percent use the dark theme for their editor or IDE... Some fun facts about developers include 77 percent listen to music while they are coding; the top music to listen to includes electronic, pop and rock; 53 percent sleep seven to eight hours a night; 85 percent code on the weekends; and 57 percent prefer coffee over tea.
While 38 percent of developers have no plans to adopt any new languages this year, the top languages respondents have started to learn in the last year include Python, JavaScript, Java, Go, TypeScript and Kotlin... Eighty-two percent of respondents use IDEs while 69 percent use editors. Of those using IDEs and editors, only 12 percent cited that they don't customize their IDE/editors. In addition, 77 percent use the dark theme for their editor or IDE... Some fun facts about developers include 77 percent listen to music while they are coding; the top music to listen to includes electronic, pop and rock; 53 percent sleep seven to eight hours a night; 85 percent code on the weekends; and 57 percent prefer coffee over tea.
Most used is probably cobal, fortran, c, c++ or maybe ada. Javascript hasnt been around that long, and im sure perl is still way ahead of it. Maybe most popular in the last year, most used is a bad headline
I like C++ and C#, drink coffee and tea, use an IDE (Visual Studio) with the light theme, and would be delighted to try Go for $200. My favorite music is by Taylor Swift, and I love to code on the weekends listening to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCXGJQYZ9JA
Javascript is used for many Terabytes of completely needless code for Websites.
Java is in large part popular because many universities teach it to their students. Essentially it's similar to the question what language you know.
What would be more interesting would be to ask the same question for different uses.
From TFA: "More than 15K people participated in the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2018, but only the responses of 6K respondents were included in this report." They go on to say that they used social media to find their population and weighted the results according to countries and whether or not the respondent was a student.
So why should I consider these results as representative of anything? First, almost 2/3rds of the responses weren't used and then, on the responses they deemed acceptable, they were weighted in some way which they don't explain.
I bet that if I took the same data, applied my own response filter and weighting system, I could show that:
- Pascal is the number one programming language
- Arduino IDE is the most popular development environment
- 42% listen to old Jack Benny radio shows while coding
and so on...
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I would argue that they don't provide any meaningful, actionable data.
There are implications about what developers should look at to prepare for the future, but I don't think anybody will tell you that basing your education/training on what's popular now is of any long term value (although you could argue that learning Cobol and MVS/JCL in the 1970s/1980s would provide you with a nice living now).
I honestly don't care what IDEs, drinks or music other developers use while working: unless they result in flashing screens, smell awful or are too loud (I've experienced all three with different coworkers).
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I wonder what they're doing on weekdays ?
Jetbrains says their language Kotlin is a "top" new language. Good luck with that Jetbrains. No one has even heard of that. The rest of it is nonsense too.
JavaScript is a ridiculously bloated language. Look at the size of most of the libraries.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Then you don't get out much.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Spring Boot and Grails are definitive proof that 90% of the complaints about learning curve were always a problem of developer culture and not the platform. It is probably easier to do a Spring Boot quickstart now than a Rails or Django one because the basic setup that just works is two files (pom.xml and a Java or Groovy source file).
Like banging my head against the wall, I do it because it feels so good when I stop.
Have gnu, will travel.
Protip: It is not a good idea to replace something bad with something worse...
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Most used languages:
Swift (for iOS)
Kotlin (for Android)
C# or VB.NET (for server-side - the company I work for has a MS server stack)
JavaScript (for web)
Over the history of my career, the most used language is probably Java (for server-side, for Android, and even for some client applications), followed by C++ and C (for desktop applications and embedded systems). For iOS, I used Objective C until Swift came out.
As far as preferences, I like both Swift and Kotlin (and prefer them over Objective C and Java). JavaScript has grown on me, despite its warts. I find it nice if you use some of the modern features (Babel helps) and avoid its pitfalls (the "bad parts" -- a good linter helps with this). That said, JavaScript is a language that makes it easy to screw things up if you don't understand it well, so I get the hate that JavaScript attracts.
I put Java and C# in the same category, preference-wise. I can code in them just fine, but they're not my favorites.
I also put C++ and C in the same general category. If I'm using one of these, I'm probably doing something where I'd have a mild preference for C.
VB.NET is not something I like to use, but something that I have to use. It's at the bottom of my preference list. I don't like the syntax and find it verbose, ugly, and inelegant.
I drink coffee and water when I'm coding. I listen to whatever I feel like. Usually rock or classical, but sometimes jazz. I sometimes code on the weekends (hobby stuff, not work). I probably average 7-8 hours of sleep a night. I use Xcode for iOS, Android Studio for Android, Visual Studio for .NET stuff, and editor + bash shell for JavaScript. I prefer a dark theme for my IDE or editor. For editors, I'm fine with vim, but lately I've been using Atom. I also recently tried Visual Studio Code, which is surprisingly good. My company's server's are mainly self-hosted, but we also have some AWS and Google cloud stuff.
Are you entertained?
In terms of web development: Are you talking about native Javascript (size of library: 0K), or web applications that load jQuery and other large libraries just to move a
tag around in a webpage a little more easily (in their opinion)?
I have an application stack that I've been messing around with that loads tons of libraries including React and Material UI and after running uglify js, the whole shebang is about 290k, VERY SMALL.
We'll make great pets
Java is a programming language. Javascript and Python are scripting languages.
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that it's a single vendor standard. Should Oracle get bust or loose interest, you have a problem. Even if Oracle doesn't loose interest there are already widely diverging versions of Java. For example a Java 8 compiler won't even compile Java 2k code.
Well, it does require a certain mindset.
I was already partway there, as a CDC 6000 assembly language programmer.
Because the words were wide and jumps were expensive and the instruction set included many boolean and integer arithmetic instructions, things that seemed to call for a loop could often be done faster without one. Deleting trailing blanks from a string (provided it fit into a word) could be done by masking selected bits, shifting temporary results, masking temporary results, adding/subtracting, and then doing a final mask to trim the trailing blanks off. (I do NOT recall any of the details.)
Turning trailing nulls into blanks was done much the same way.
Or perhaps there was only one "COMMON DECK" for this. (A paleolithic "include" file.) If you needed to do the other operation, just XOR the bits with a word of blanks, do the provided operation, then XOR the result again with the word of blanks. Ta da!
APL is like that, only more so. And with other odd things.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
OK - I've looked, and they seem fine to me. Want to try making a more substantive argument? Maybe with examples and evidence your examples are not outliers?