Apple's Swift cracks RedMonk's top 15 in record time

[Kent Sharkey]

Infoworld[^]:

Rust, Go, and PowerShell are also gathering steam in the analyst firm's biannual language rankings

For those who only code in popular languages

Yeah, I promised myself I wouldn't use these any more, but it's a slow news day. And some people like popularity contests.

[Mark_Wallace]

Quote:

The rankings are based on a recently retweaked formula that assesses code usage in GitHub and language discussions in Stack Overflow.

So it's the buggiest, requiring more revisits than any other language, and an awful lot of people on SO bitch about how cr@ppy it is.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!