I wonder where this graph gets it's data from. Scala sitting at 4.6 percent and python at 1.2 percent is not what I would expect, but my perception of the industry could be totally off.
I wonder where this graph gets it's data from. Scala sitting at 4.6 percent and python at 1.2 percent is not what I would expect, but my perception of the industry could be totally off.
I wonder where this graph gets it's data from
They've apparently written their own web crawler that attempts to infer what language is used based on a bunch of, unspecified, heuristics. I wonder if at least some of the problem is that it is very easy to see if site uses PHP and much harder to see if a site uses a python backend and a such most python using sites just aren't being counted.
I think that we tend to have personal biases, depending on the context of our relationships and professional cultures.
I totally believe the graph, if only for things like WordPress, and a number of other infrastructure-level tools.
I know that the porn industry is still big on PHP. There was a post here, some time ago, that linked to a PornHub programmer, talking about their IT stack, and it was all PHP.
It's a boring workhorse. The "boring" part is attractive to IT pros.
> server-side programming languages for websites
Maybe because most websites are Wordpress websites.
The PHP thing is believable, I'm just still stuck on scala vs python based on my observations from working in the industry and being part of the hiring process for both of these languages. Perhaps it's because I work in B2B SAAS where these products aren't always necessarily exposed to the public internet.
Yeah this feels off, though if its assessing all/many sites it could make some sense, versus assessing the top N sites by traffic.
See my note about the pron industry.
Those sites get a lot of traffic.
I did notice that JavaScript (which may include TypeScript) is going up, but so is Java, and that Java is still higher than JavaScript.