Quote: "The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. "
According to this index, "Logo", beats out Rust, Scala, Kotlin, and Cobol.
I cannot remind myself when I last time saw a course, book or even any source code covering Logo.
This must be some very poorly vetted, automatically collected data that tripped over something provoking the ranking.
JavaScript is easily number one for reasons that will surprise nobody. On the WakaTime public leaderboards it dominates to such an extent that I think programmers spend more time writing JavaScript than all the other languages combined. I don't know if that generalizes to the broader population, but it gives one an idea how ubiquitous it is.
But I don't know what you do for a living but in general Hackernews tends to have webdev tunnel vision. Embedded, operating system development, browser development, OS, driver dev, games, telecoms, compilers, lots of IoT, systems development generally, all of this is in C/C++, and will be for the forseeable future.
That is a lot of lines of code, but mostly invisible to people whose role in the industry is "full stack development" type jobs.
Now, if you strictly interpret the "C" in this popularity nonsense as "C", then sure. Pure ANSI C has a fairly restrictive use environment. But "C/C++" is a much much larger ecosystem.
Also get a laugh out of the people here calling C "simple". Ho boy.
I'm well aware of the things C and C++ are used for. I'm currently mostly working in Rust at that moment to make use of libraries in C++. But I think web development easily swamps that kind of work in terms of number of developers.
does it though. IBM alone, a service company, has 380000 employees. And there are tons of service companies like that - at least in my country they are mostly doing Java and the like.
Get a thousand random developers and ask them to list all the languages they know well. What do you think will be the most common?
C seems quite realistic given what they measure.
[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-...
Besides that it's also influenced by how good the language is at explaining to the user what is going wrong. Clear error messages mean the user uses StackOverflow less, while arcane errors would mean they need to look for longer for the solution for their issue.
What this means is we have no idea if the sample of programmers is representative of the worldwide programmer population.
I'd argue that C# and other Microsoft languages are vastly under-represented in the SO survey, but we have no way of knowing if that's true.
StackOverflow is also a place for asking questions. C is a relatively simple language and one which has been around for longer than most developers have been alive. There may just not be much left to ask about it.
We sure are using more apps than ever. But I think we are also using more "smart" things than ever, and not just in the buzzword sense.
A ton of everyday object now have chips, from toothbrushes, thermometers, door bells, car keys, fire alarms, lights, even charging cables.
Considering drivers are coded for every variations of these appliances and chips, it look to me to be a tremendous amoubt of code written all over the world. Especially as writing code is cheaper than adapting hardware, even different uses of the same chip could get different drivers.
This only represents the sad state of Javascript documentation, I think.
Of course.
> ...their JavaScript Documentation is impeccable?
Well, no. MDN doesn't answer the questions everyone has: "Which browser does this work on?" "Is it okay to use this new feature?" "Why does this buggy thing do this to me?" "Is it really true that you can't do <simple thing> in CSS"?
Etc. Web standards really aren't. (And I'm not even touching the third-party library churn problem here.)
SQL is justified though. I’ve met quite a few BAs or DBAs who can do magic in a sql developer suite but don’t have a programming bone in their body.
So I guess it just doesn't count JS developers as skilled engineers?
(The parent link has a quote from TIOBE CEO that illustrates they are not considering only professional software engineer use)