Objective-C is less popular than Haskell? Java is less popular than Python?<p>Doesn't pass the smell test: <a href="http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2Cpython%2Cobjective-c%2Chaskell&l=" rel="nofollow">http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2Cpython%2Cobjective-...</a>
Does a really good job of showcasing what codeeval's target focus should be for their business, but this doesn't reflect commonly held beliefs as to what languages are seeing the highest volume of activity.
I really don't see why C# usage would have jumped by 100% last year. And I don't believe the 900% jump in the previous year.<p>This probably shows they landed a big Microsoft shop as a customer in 2012 and a smaller one in 2013.
Here is a different set of measures that puts JavaScript first, followed by Java <a href="http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/01/22/language-rankings-1-14/" rel="nofollow">http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/01/22/language-rankings-1-14...</a>
This is so completely utterly broken I don't know why they publish it each year. At least try to fix it so it matches our current planet.<p>Surely they can tell that javascript and objective-c with their overlap with 'web', 'dhtml', 'jquery', 'ios', 'iphone', etc. and other such terms are skewed compared to the easily disambiguated 'python'.
I love the comment:<p>"Perhaps you should fix those mistakes in your "% Change" column... Looks like some rows show a decrease when there is an increase (for example C in 2012 is 4.9 and 4.10 in 2013, and % change here is -16% ...)."<p>I have to remember to add "What's the % change between 4.9 and 4.10?" to my list of tech interview questions.
Here is a similar analysis on Top 10 programming language (based on Hacker News Poll, 2 years ago) : <a href="http://blog.sudobits.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/popular-programming-lang.png" rel="nofollow">http://blog.sudobits.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/popular-...</a><p>(full article here : <a href="http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/03/28/top-10-most-popular-programming-languages-of-2012/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.sudobits.com/2012/03/28/top-10-most-popular-prog...</a>)
Depends how you define "popular". Perhaps activity on GitHub is more fitting, where JS wins, hands-down: <a href="http://adambard.com/blog/top-github-languages-for-2013-so-far/" rel="nofollow">http://adambard.com/blog/top-github-languages-for-2013-so-fa...</a>
This is the most popular languages <i>for this site</i>. If you look at the job market I'd really be surprised if Java and PHP weren't still far in the lead.
The title is misleading. If any, it reinforces the fact that python is a good language for solving puzzles, writing scripts, and <i>may be</i> small projects.