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The 2018 Top Programming Languages, According To IEEE (ieee.org)
New submitter rfengineer shares a report: Welcome to IEEE Spectrum's fifth annual interactive ranking of the top programming languages. Because no one can peer over the shoulders of every coder out there, anyone attempting to measure the popularity of computer languages must rely on proxy measures of relative popularity. In our case, this means combining metrics from multiple sources to rank 47 languages. But recognizing that different programmers have different needs and domains of interest, we've chosen not to blend all those metrics up into One Ranking to Rule Them All. [...] Python has tightened its grip on the No. 1 spot. Last year it came out on top by just barely beating out C, with Python's score of 100 to C's 99.7. But this year, there's a wider gap between first and second place, with C++ coming in at 98.4 for the No. 2 slot (last year, Java had come third with a score of 99.4, while this year its fallen to 4th place with a score of 97.5). C has fallen to third place, with a score of 98.2.
Admit it. All these pro-flavor-of-the-month-coding-language articles on /. are red meat for python, PHP, and Java coders who wish they could learn C but couldn't hack it. Python is popular with skript-kiddies who just couldn't concentrate long enough to learn how to use a pointer. D, Swift, Go, and others are for corporate kids who'd rather talk about coding than code. Kinda like LISP. That's for academics who'd rather talk about coding than code. Stay with those languages, especially if you are from India (we don't need more crap-C-code, thank you). I'll be over here in my cave, coding in C and assembler laughing at your forced indentation and "managed" code.