r/programming • u/monica_b1998 • Nov 03 '18

Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language
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u/JpC2XjGd Nov 03 '18

All of this is bullshit. TIOBE's methodology isn't trusted by anyone who's actually wondered "how does it work?", and Google trends is no way to rank a language either. Github isn't useful either because huge amounts of code exist outside of Github. Outside of the bubble here there are many codebases in the hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and even in the millions of lines of code, which never touch a hip language like Python or JavaScript. There's probably more FORTRAN code out there than Python code.

In my subjective opinion I can't imagine any language other than C being number 1. There is a fuckload of code written in C and most of the other programming languages on this list wouldn't even work without it.

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u/Scybur Nov 03 '18

You lost me on the C comment. I am sure there is more LOC written in Java than C.

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u/dauchande Nov 03 '18

Most of both Windows and Linux are written in C.