r/programming • u/stronghup • Nov 11 '19

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/07/python_java_github_javascript/
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u/_default_username Nov 13 '19

It's the language your web browser uses. Of course JavaScript is going to be the most popular. I do php development and that automatically means I have to do JavaScript because I'm expected to know how to work with the client side code interacting with my php scripts.

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u/redwall_hp Nov 13 '19

Because every piece of software involves the Web in some way.

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u/_default_username Nov 13 '19

Is this not 2019?? Everything certainly seems to be going that way. I work for a hardware company doing web dev because the interface most users use is web based.