Today, while writing an article on PHP resources on DEV, I found myself comparing the number of articles of the most popular language tags out there (PHP, JS, Go, ...).
Finally, I searched a bit and I did it for every languages.
Before today, I just had the feeling that many posts were about Javascript or related stuff. The fact is that the results are amazing: 56% of the posts related to programming languages are about Javascript! 😲
| Language | Framework or related | # | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ada | 1 | 0.01% | |
| Julia | 1 | 0.01% | |
| Cobol | 2 | 0.02% | |
| Smalltalk | 2 | 0.02% | |
| Objective-C | 5 | 0.04% | |
| Lua | 11 | 0.09% | |
| Erlang | 14 | 0.12% | |
| R | 22 | 0.19% | |
| Haskell | 22 | 0.19% | |
| Lisp | 24 | 0.20% | |
| incl Scheme | 5 | 0.04% | |
| Crystal | 26 | 0.22% | |
| Dart | 34 | 0.29% | |
| Perl | 35 | 0.30% | |
| Clojure | 42 | 0.35% | |
| Scala | 49 | 0.41% | |
| Elm | 75 | 0.63% | |
| C++ | 88 | 0.74% | |
| Rust | 121 | 1.02% | |
| C | 154 | 1.30% | |
| Kotlin | 156 | 1.32% | |
| .NET | 156 | 1.32% | |
| Elixir | 167 | 1.41% | |
| Swift | 169 | 1.43% | |
| C# | 200 | 1.69% | |
| Android | 374 | 3.15% | |
| Java | 383 | 3.23% | |
| Go | 393 | 3.31% | |
| PHP | 725 | 6.11% | |
| incl Symfony | 14 | 0.12% | |
| incl Laravel | 182 | 1.53% | |
| Ruby | 859 | 7.24% | |
| incl Rails | 324 | 2.73% | |
| Python | 865 | 7.29% | |
| incl Django | 95 | 0.80% | |
| Javascript | 6684 | 56.36% | |
| incl jQuery | 38 | 0.32% | |
| incl Express | 78 | 0.66% | |
| incl Redux | 128 | 1.08% | |
| incl Typescript | 188 | 1.59% | |
| incl Angular | 260 | 2.19% | |
| incl Vue.js | 368 | 3.10% | |
| incl React Native | 382 | 3.22% | |
| incl Node.js | 782 | 6.59% | |
| incl React | 1066 | 8.99% | |
| TOTAL | 11859 | 100.00% |
I included frameworks, libraries and variants in their related languages (e.g.
jQueryinJavascript.
More than Javascript, the statistics show that frontend languages, frameworks and libraries are massively tagged unlike backend ones that are under-represented.
A language like Go only has 3.3% of the language tags, which is very low compared to the real popularity of the language.
Haskell is almost inexistent whereas it's very popular in functional programming.
I don't know what to think about this 🤔. And you?
Latest comments (74)
That numbers in # collumn is the count of total articles written in the # programming language or is something else? Because I've been watching #csharp and #dotnet and there is much more articles written.
Yes, it is the count of articles of the language, the 31 Oct 2018.
Maybe .NET's popularity has grown since...
And Java is only at 3.2% here! It's arguable whether Java is still the most commonly used language or not, but it's definitely used a lot more than Go or Ruby are!
Well, I'm pretty impressed that have has such a low number of articles!
For me is good because I was taught Back-end development all the time in my CS degree and I have grown to despise it, so everything I'm doing nowadays is Front-end development and I love JavaScript and everything related to it.
Not a big fan of JS myself, but you know there are two types of languages:
a) everyone complains about them
b) nobody is using them
Haha, that's a Bjarne Stroustrup quote right? Absolutely true though.
Yup, that's right :)
Too many JS :(
very interesting stats. I'd expect people to be eager to share their learnings in Golang considering Golang is relatively new...But not too odd since backend languages are underrepresented all together.
Yeah, backenders need to up their game
Well, the numbers here only represent quantities and not qualities, they don't mean much out of that context.
agreed
While I think everyone with eyes can admit that JavaScript/JS frameworks are highly popular- I unfortunately find myself reading less and less of Dev.to due to the lack of diversity
These are rookie numbers, I gotta pump these numbers up! Challenge accepted.