First of all, Happy New Year!
IEEE Spectrum published a ranking of the most popular programming languages. Computational journalist Nick Diakopoulos wrote the article. While it may surprise some, I wasn’t surprised to find SQL in the top ten.
Nick weighted and combined 12 metrics from 10 sources (including IEEE Xplore, Google, and GitHub) to rank the most popular programming languages.
- Compiled programming languages (Java [#1], C [#2], C++ [#3], C# [#4], Objective-C [#16])
- Interpreted programming languages (Python [#5], JavaScript [#6], PHP [#7], Ruby [#8], Perl [#11], HTML [#12])
- Data languages (SQL [#9], MATLAB …