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.

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node.js, baby

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You can learn it in a two-week bootcamp. You can use it on the front end. You can use it on the back end. (Previously you had to be smart enough to learn PHP before they would let you run code on the production server!) Brendan Eich created javascript and he's a fucking programming god (of course it turned out he believes in God and straight marriage so we're not allowed to talk about him or Crockford anymore).

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.