Top Programming languages 2023 Survey

[John Z]

Here is the most recent programing language survey, always sure to start a discussion

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-top-programming-languages-2023

Summary chart attached -

John Z

[KunJohn]

And I've seen this comparison, a little different though largely similar. Python ranks first with 30.09%, followed by Java with 18.84%, then JavaScript with 8.1%, C# with 7.27%, PHP with 6.08% and C/C++ with 5.86%,

[Vortex]

While there is a big propaganda behind the popular scripting languages, the C language is not losing it's importance.

[frankie]

That data should be related to the software products distribution.
The big explosion of web applications requires a large use of web programming languages, this leads to the grow of script languages, HTML, javascript, python, etc.
Similar reasons drive the grow of multiplatform languages/frameworks (Azure and similar).
Making 100% the whole, those new programming field apparently seems to occupy the 90%, but this is exactly the growth, more or less, of new applications. Conclusion the use of imperative strong languages, as C/C++, are the same.
Why? Because an OS, time critical programs, high efficiency computation, requires them, C/C++ and even FORTRAN sometimes. 

Anyway the software/hardware development always follows the dog-tail law: when a more powerful hardware is created there always follow a new OS or language or user interface to make it slow! 

[TimoVJL]

And how Python is build 
With what language ?
There was Visual C++ for Python 2.7 package VCForPython27

[Vortex]

Hi Timo,

The WayBack Machine \ Internet archive is hosting a copy of the Visual C++ for Python 2.7 package.

[Pelle]

As always, I guess it depends on how they collect the data.
Web developers will be active on the web, COBOL developers no so much...

[nsp]

As always, I guess it depends on how they collect the data.
Web developers will be active on the web, COBOL developers no so much...

As said FORTRAN or COBOL or ADA are not so active in popular github or sourceforge anyhow in some domain it remains the main language with no choice. This ranking is good for hobbyist or HR but for most professional developer do not have to be top notch usually being efficient with tons of code to maintain is enough. 
As a teacher told me long time ago implementation language is not so important if you understand algorithmic and can calculate complexity of your code (Just stay open minded to learn new language).   

[TimoVJL]

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