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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.
By the time they graduate, all the languages-du-jour will have changed.
The only things that will always be there are assembly, C, C++, javascript*.
* until all the major browsers switch to something else, but they'll never agree to that.
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Correct.
Who the hell thought a language which is ambiguous when printed out was a good idea?
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
Every time that Python is mentioned someone raise the point about whitespace. Yes it is annoying when first learning the language, but within a few hours you have totally forgotten about it. Python has other issues, but whitespace is the one people always initially focus on, unless you are in the habit of cut and pasting code from any or every where without using discrete code blocks, then it really is not that much of an issue.
Does python have rockstars? Does C++ have ninjas? Does java have 10x rockstar ninja? No!
Javascript is a 10x rock star ninja. One moment, you're sitting there, alive, than POW you're dead. And there's an asian guy with playing some sweet riffs on his guitar/sword, teabagging your mouth.
And if you're only a 1xer, that's cool too. npm has tons of high quality javascript one-liners written by the industries best 10xer and/or bootcamp homework projects. How do you know if something is the number 3 in c++? You don't! But npm has probably 30 or 50 packages to check for the number 3.
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> So what are the Top Ten Languages of 2018, as ranked for the typical IEEE member and Spectrum reader?
Their membership must be a very niche market for R to outrank JavaScript in "popularity".
The article admits that different languages are used for different things. It's like making a list of "top vehicles", including cars, trucks, ferries, cargo container ships, and airplanes. Yet they go right ahead and still create a master ranking, because they can't help themselves. And we can't help but froth about it, which is the entire damn point for all of this.
It's hard to get too frothy when my own language of choice, C++, is near the top, but my own view tends to be incredibly myopic, as I work in the game industry, and C++ absolutely dominates there.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
I disagree to a certain extent. Once you've set up your IDE, it's fine, but my main problem is that whitespace is significant. Why should I have to care how many indents there are? At least with C/C++ I can search for a '{' or '}'. You can't search for missing whitespace. Again, a well-set up IDE highlights and lines up brackets or whitespace, but whole concept is bad design in my opinion. For example, I like 2 spaces for tabs for tighter indentation, but I can't do that in Python because the language designers decided that 4 spaces is exactly right for everyone. That type of thing shouldn't be inherent in the language design. I do think Python gets a bad rap because it's so easy to use and so bad programmers don't have a high barrier to entry to writing their terrible code. In my experience, you can write good code in Python. There are many things it's not great at, but it's a useful tool.
For example, I like 2 spaces for tabs for tighter indentation, but I can't do that in Python because the language designers decided that 4 spaces is exactly right for everyone
That is not the case. 4 is recommended, but you can use any number of spaces in Python.
Why should I have to care how many indents there are? ... For example, I like 2 spaces for tabs for tighter indentation
Nowhere a hint of irony. *sigh*
You shouldn't have to care about indentation. And when there's a standard, you don't have to.
Complaints about whitespace are literally the most superficial complaint about a language possible. And honestly, when people start in with complaints about whitespace, I know immediately that they aren't going to have anything of value to contribute.
Arguing about how much your code should be indented is nothing more than bike-shedding. People express opinions about the things they understand. Arguing about indentation tends to illustrate the extent of your understanding.
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I'd start counting flaws but I don't have all day. At least these are readily apparent.
HTML is not a programming language. It's a markup language, and although one might be able to coerce HTML5 and CSS3 together into being Turing complete that's an emergent property best thought of as a bug.
SQL is a query language. Fairly sophisticated data manipulations can be done with it, but it's typically used with an actual programming language to develop applications.
Arduino isn't a language at all. It's a hardware device which can be programmed in various languages. There is an approved IDE but more than one language supports the platform.
Cuda is not a language, but a toolkit for GPU programming that's used from multiple different languages.
Shell and assembly are each more than one language. May as well by that logic call Clojure, Scheme, and Racket part of Lisp. Call JavaScript and ActionScript both ECMAScript.
The method of looking at searches for "X programming" specifically gives an advantage to languages that don't lend themselves to search or need disambiguation like C, Go, Python, Ruby, R, S, D, shell, assembly, or Crystal. Languages with distinct names like Perl, Erlang, JavaScript, Smalltalk, ActionScript, or Matlab don't generally need such qualification.
I actually worked with those old 20000 line plus Fortran programs and they were surprisingly easy to work with. One quickly learned that in order to maintain some semblence of sanity, one had to block line numbers by function -- e.g. 0-1000 are global stuff, 1000-2000 are input ... Sounds dumb, but it worked. In a few cases I saw both the 1960s monolithic Fortran code and the 1980s modern style code with roughly sixteen zillion tiny subroutines. Personally, I think the older style was often easier to work with.
I don't know much about Cobol, but the one time I had to debug an issue in a Cobol subsystem, I found it to be surprisingly readable. I don't think I have the patience to write Cobol code, but I think it probably deserves more respect than it gets.
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