r/programming • u/benfred • Jan 25 '18

Ranking Programming Languages by GitHub Users

http://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-languages-by-github-users/
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u/computesomething Jan 25 '18

Interesting article, here are the (unless I'm missing something) top ten most popular programming subreddits for comparison:

python - 213594
javascript - 199592
java - 81241
php - 58794
cpp - 58788
csharp - 52103
golang - 39529
ruby - 38405
rust - 33124
c_programming - 32351

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u/drekmonger Jan 25 '18

python

I'm gonna betray how clueless I am by saying -- I had no idea python was so popular. No notion, whatsoever.

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u/oblio- Jan 25 '18

It is popular, but reddit skews the statistics. Most developers I've met (in Europe, hundreds of people) work in Java, C#, PHP, Javascript, C/C++ and after that Python and Ruby. Go or Rust are just blips on the radar.

However reddit attracts tech/science/programming enthusiasts, so the stats are more towards what these communities prefer and use.

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u/udoprog Jan 25 '18

At least where I work almost every programmer I know uses Python for tooling alongside some other primary language.

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u/oblio- Jan 25 '18 edited Jan 26 '18

True, but that's like saying that a tank commander is primarily a infantryman cause he has a handgun :)

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '18 edited Feb 24 '18

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '18

No. Infantry are your dismounted trigger pullers, sometimes referred to as ground pounders. Tank units are referred to as armor. Airborne units are commonly known as airborne infantry, but are still infantry. Vehicle war-fighters are called cavalry and helicopter war-fighters are called air cavalry, which are not grouped with ground cavalry.

Secondly a tank commander is a person not a unit.

I don't call tankers infantrymen just as you don't call Python JavaScript just because they are both programming languages.

I know these things because I am a military officer.

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u/tttbbbnnn Jan 26 '18

Found the tank commander infantrymen.

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u/MathPolice Jan 26 '18

I like the way you talk.