Python is still the most popular coding language, but challengers are gaining ground (www.techspot.com)
from BrikoX@lemmy.zip to programming@programming.dev on 17 Oct 2024 00:23
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The latest update to the TIOBE Index reveals notable shifts in the world of software development. While traditional programming languages remain popular, many developers are seeking out technologies that can make sense of the vast amounts of modern digital data. Legacy languages like C, COBOL, Fortran, and Assembly still have their place, but they no longer take center stage.

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kata1yst@sh.itjust.works on 17 Oct 2024 00:51 next collapse

I really wonder about their methodology. JavaScript/Typescript is nearly ubiquitous in webdev, and has been making strides in the backend space for almost a decade now. No matter how you feel about it (yeah it’s terrible, I’ve been press-ganged into it this year) it’s a real force in the marketplace.

It’s super surprising to me it’s still behind C and C++.

BrikoX@lemmy.zip on 17 Oct 2024 00:59 next collapse
Voytrekk@lemmy.world on 17 Oct 2024 01:02 next collapse

Everyone that does frontend works with JS/TS and it’s becoming popular on the backend as well. Definitely the most popular language IMO.

nous@programming.dev on 17 Oct 2024 08:10 collapse

*in the web dev domain.

Which also has a very disproportionate representation on the web - for obvious reasons. And it is very easy to get stuck in the mentatilty that all you see if the domain you are in so you over estimate how large it is compaired to other domains. But lets not forget general application development, old large scale enterprise, embedded systems, game dev, machine learning and many more spaces where JS/TS are barely used at all.

umt@lemmynsfw.com on 17 Oct 2024 01:06 next collapse

The fact that the scratch language is in the top 20 should tell you how seriously you should take this metric. TIOBE measures the number of search hits mentioning the language. So a language that is popular with learners, or that has poor documentation and thus requires a lot of third party documentation, or that it is profitable to run ads next to will all be inflated.

umt@lemmynsfw.com on 17 Oct 2024 01:11 collapse

I personally think the advertising bump is why matlab is on there. Matlab programmers are the kind of dingleberries that love to pay for something that everyone else uses a foss alternative for.

embed_me@programming.dev on 17 Oct 2024 04:44 next collapse

Lol I love the unfiltered shade

sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 18 Oct 13:40 collapse

Some places are inextricably tied to SimuLink due to how long it was around before any of the alternatives.

Paradox@lemdro.id on 17 Oct 2024 02:17 next collapse

Not only that, but with toolchains like deno, it’s almost enjoyable

I wrote some telegram bots in deno and it’s got one of the cleanest deploy chains around, just compile to an executable for the target architecture, and SCP it over. Exec is statically linked, and so it just works

a1studmuffin@aussie.zone on 17 Oct 2024 07:56 next collapse

C/C++ still has a huge place in firmware, microcontrollers, operating systems, drivers, application development, video games, real-time systems and so on. It’s a totally different space of programming to webdev, which might explain the surprise.

0x0@programming.dev on 17 Oct 2024 09:05 next collapse

No! C is legacy! No one uses it anymore! It’s too hard!

/s

GetOffMyLan@programming.dev on 18 Oct 13:14 collapse

I mean it’s not hard so much as very dated and a bit shit.

I could use raw pointers in c# if I wanted to. But it’s just not a great way to do things.

C will likely have a place where low languages are required for a long time. But everywhere else there’s little reason to choose over more modern languages.

kata1yst@sh.itjust.works on 17 Oct 2024 17:08 collapse

I’m not really a webdev, more backend or full stack at this point. I do know about C & C++ strong presence in firmware, OS, HPC, video gaming, and elsewhere.

But by the numbers there’s a lot more webdevs than any other kind out there, and that doesn’t even touch on NodeJS leaking into backend and elsewhere.

bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works on 17 Oct 2024 17:48 next collapse

A lot of the software that makes JavaScript web development possible is C or C++, like web servers, databases, operating systems, network devices.

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vext01@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Oct 06:25 collapse

There’s just such a massive volume of web development compared to systems programming?

Treczoks@lemmy.world on 18 Oct 07:42 collapse

I wonder how much of that actually is development and not just the gazillionth instance of some web site builders scripts.

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 17 Oct 2024 02:39 next collapse

I can’t take www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ seriously: Visual Basic on place 7 of most popular programming languages right after JavaScript? More popular than Go, Rust, PHP and SQL? Haskell is more popular than TypeScript (scroll down to see other places)? TIOBE isn’t a good metric, as they only check a few websites and a few engineers:

The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular web sites Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, Bing and more than 20 others are used to calculate the ratings.

Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Oct 2024 08:11 next collapse

Does SQL count as a programming language?

I know that you can write DB hooks and stuff but in my mind it still doesn’t register as programming

funtrek@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 Oct 2024 08:19 next collapse

Well …

github.com/nuno-faria/tetris-sql

Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Oct 2024 08:39 collapse

Huh. Nice

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 17 Oct 2024 12:26 collapse

According to TIOBE (note can be found if you scroll down a bit):

The programming language SQL was added to the TIOBE index in 2018 after somebody pointed out that SQL is Turing Complete. So although this language is very old, it has only a short history in the index.

daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Oct 2024 11:25 collapse

If they count VBa as Visual Basic is not surprise.

You’ll be amazed on the amount of development that’s being made over MOffice in not technology companies.

thingsiplay@beehaw.org on 17 Oct 2024 12:25 collapse

I read further and there is some clarification if you scroll down to “Very Long Term History”. Visual Basic and (Visual) Basic are two entries, where Visual Basic refers to “Visual Basic .NET” since 2014. And (Visual) Basic from the 90s to 2014 is a collection of all Basic dialects, which includes Visual Basic .NET. Color me impressed how to confuse people.

There is a difference between “Visual Basic” and “(Visual) Basic” in the table above. Until 2010, “(Visual) Basic” referred to all possible dialects of Basic, including Visual Basic. After some discussion, it has been decided to split “(Visual) Basic” into all its dialects such as Visual Basic .NET, Classic Visual Basic, PureBasic, and Small Basic, just to name a few. Since Visual Basic .NET has become the major implementation of Visual Basic, it is now called “Visual Basic”.

0x0@programming.dev on 17 Oct 2024 09:00 next collapse

Legacy languages like C, COBOL, Fortran, and Assembly still have their place, but they no longer take center stage.

“Legacy” languages?

2nd: C++ 4th: C

Right…

vext01@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Oct 06:28 collapse

Suppose it depends on the definition of legacy.

I mean new features are still added to C and C++.

But they are old.

asdfbla@lemmynsfw.com on 18 Oct 07:19 collapse

And here I am, only being allowed to program in C99 (or sometimes C89)

A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com on 17 Oct 2024 09:54 collapse

TIOBE is meaningless - it is just search engine result numbers, which for many search engines are likely a wildly inaccurate estimate of how many results match in their index. Many of those matches will not be about the relevant language, and the numbers probably have very little correlation to who uses it (especially for languages that are single letter, include punctuation in the name, or are a common English word).