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Python overtakes JavaScript as most queried language on Stack Overflow

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A new study from crowdsourced QA testers Global App Testing has explored developers’ biggest pain points, with Python dethroning JavaScript as Stack Overflow’s most questioned programming language.

The research focused on JavaScript, Python, R, Ruby, C#, C++, Java, Objective-C, Swift, PHP and SQL – not so much 11 languages but 10 languages and a database – and went through a semantic route to determine major issues.

In terms of sheer numbers, JavaScript came out on top with more than 1.75 million questions asked over Stack Overflow’s more than 10-year history. Java came second with 1.51m, with C# (1.28m), PHP (1.26m) and Python (1.1m) the others to break the million mark. Yet with regard to today, Python is top of the shop, having overtaken JavaScript for questions asked in late 2018.

Digging down into what developers were looking for in each language – the data cleaning was done in Python and the word cloud builder was in JavaScript, just to be fair – led to arguably few surprises. For JavaScript, ‘jQuery’ was by far the most questioned framework, with ‘function’, ‘duplicate’ and ‘string’ also popular words. For Python, the latter two were the most popular, but of interest to note was ‘django’. “Python is a general purpose duct-tape language and gets involved in many different domains of tech,” as the researchers put it.

The other languages analysed came up with some more interesting results. For Ruby, the most popular word was ‘rails’; hardly surprising, but it was the most popular by a street. More niche-purpose languages such as R, for data scientists, came back with more specific terms, including ‘dataframe’, ‘datatable’ and ‘ggplot’.

Global App Testing assessed the overall research thus. “Each programming language has over time been geared toward – or was even designed for – a particular niche within tech,” the company noted. “R is to data science as Swift is to iOS development as C++ is to video game development. This explains some of the differences in the types of problems that arise… why we see ‘database’ a commonly questioned concept in SQL but not, for example, Objective-C.

“Despite these obvious differences, these visualisations represent some fundamental similarities within the different domains,” the company added. “Base-level data types such as strings and arrays – but not integers, floats, or Boolean values, apparently – are frequently pain points that cause developers of all stripes and creeds to turn to Stack Overflow.”

The developer portal has previously noted some of these trends. A report from Stack Overflow last January noted how jQuery remained the most popular JavaScript framework while adding the share for market voice was ‘brutal’, while as far back as September 2017 the company was assessing what it called ‘incredible’ growth in Python.

You can read the full Global App Testing analysis here.

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Why Companies Prefer To Use Python?

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Python is one of the most popular high-level languages for programmers. It is designed to be both readable and accessible. The syntax in Python helps the programmers to do coding in fewer steps as compared to Java or C++. The language founded in the year 1991 by the developer Guido Van Rossum has the programming easy and fun to do. Python is widely used in bigger organisations because of its multiple programming paradigms. They usually involve imperative and object-oriented functional programming. It has a comprehensive and large standard library that has automatic memory management and dynamic features.

Why Companies Prefer Python?

Python has top the charts in the recent years over other programming languages like C, C++ and Java and is widely used by the programmers. The language has undergone a drastic change since its release 25 years ago as many add-on features are introduced. Python 1.0 had the module system of Modula-3 and interacted with Amoeba Operating System with varied functioning tools. Python 2.0 introduced in the year 2000 had features of garbage collector and Unicode Support. Python 3.0 introduced in the year 2008 had a constructive design that avoids duplicate modules and constructs. With the added features, now the companies are using Python 3.5.

The software development companies prefer Python language because of its versatile features and fewer programming codes. Nearly 14% of the programmers use it on the operating systems like UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mac OS. The programmers of big companies use Python as it has created a mark for itself in the software development with characteristic features like-

  • Interactive
  • Interpreted
  • Modular
  • Dynamic
  • Object-oriented
  • Portable
  • High level
  • Extensible in C++ & C

Advantages or Benefits of Python

The Python language has diversified application in the software development companies such as in gaming, web frameworks and applications, language development, prototyping, graphic design applications, etc. This provides the language a higher plethora over other programming languages used in the industry. Some of its advantages are-

  • Extensive Support Libraries

It provides large standard libraries that include the areas like string operations, Internet, web service tools, operating system interfaces and protocols. Most of the highly used programming tasks are already scripted into it that limits the length of the codes to be written in Python.

  • Integration Feature

Python integrates the Enterprise Application Integration that makes it easy to develop Web services by invoking COM or COBRA components. It has powerful control capabilities as it calls directly through C, C++ or Java via Jython. Python also processes XML and other markup languages as it can run on all modern operating systems through same byte code.

  • Improved Programmer’s Productivity

The language has extensive support libraries and clean object-oriented designs that increase two to ten fold of programmer’s productivity while using the languages like Java, VB, Perl, C, C++ and C#.

  • Productivity

With its strong process integration features, unit testing framework and enhanced control capabilities contribute towards the increased speed for most applications and productivity of applications. It is a great option for building scalable multi-protocol network applications.

Limitations or Disadvantages of Python

Python has varied advantageous features, and programmers prefer this language to other programming languages because it is easy to learn and code too. However, this language has still not made its place in some computing arenas that includes Enterprise Development Shops. Therefore, this language may not solve some of the enterprise solutions, and limitations include-

  • Difficulty in Using Other Languages

The Python lovers become so accustomed to its features and its extensive libraries, so they face problem in learning or working on other programming languages. Python experts may see the declaring of cast “values” or variable “types”, syntactic requirements of adding curly braces or semi colons as an onerous task.

  • Weak in Mobile Computing

Python has made its presence on many desktop and server platforms, but it is seen as a weak language for mobile computing. This is the reason very few mobile applications are built in it like Carbonnelle.

  • Gets Slow in Speed

Python executes with the help of an interpreter instead of the compiler, which causes it to slow down because compilation and execution help it to work normally. On the other hand, it can be seen that it is fast for many web applications too.

  • Run-time Errors

The Python language is dynamically typed so it has many design restrictions that are reported by some Python developers. It is even seen that it requires more testing time, and the errors show up when the applications are finally run.

  • Underdeveloped Database Access Layers

As compared to the popular technologies like JDBC and ODBC, the Python’s database access layer is found to be bit underdeveloped and primitive. However, it cannot be applied in the enterprises that need smooth interaction of complex legacy data.

Conclusion

Python is a robust programming language and provides an easy usage of the code lines, maintenance can be handled in a great way, and debugging can be done easily too. It has gained importance across the globe as computer giant Google has made it one of its official programming languages.

If you enjoy using Python we would love to hear your thoughts on using the program. Also if you are considering a change of jobs we have also multiple opportunities available for you, so please get in touch.

 

 

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9 Best Programming Languages To Learn For The Future!

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Software development is a dynamic field. New and in-demand programming languages, frameworks and technologies can emerge, rise to fame, and then fade away in the course of a few years. Developers need to constantly be learning new skills to stay relevant. Understanding the best programming languages to learn for the future can be tricky.

IT is the fastest growing field with new developments and upgradations. This is one of the key factors for Technological innovation and programming is the heart of these technologies. The programming language is the superpower of developers. The programming language is the most important hidden feature behind every software development. There are more than 600 programming languages available for different purposes.

A lot of people search for the most popular programming language based on the different aspects of comparison like features, simplicity, functionality etc. Software development is a dynamic field and new technologies rise and fade away in the course of a few years.

Here we are going to discuss the 9 Best Programming Languages To Learn For The Future:

Java

Java is one of the powerful and most popular programming language and platform. A platform is that environment that helps to develop and run a program which is written in the programming language.

Java is a simple language with easy to understand syntax. Java is an OOP (Object Oriented Programming) language which is based on C++ (C++ is the base for java). So modification in data and function can be done easily as per requirement.

Java is platform independent programming language, which can be run on any machine by an interpreter which is known as JVM (Java Virtual Machine).

Java is the robust and multithreaded programming language. It can perform many tasks together by defining multiple threads. Java programs especially use to create applets for the web browser. It does not require any preprocessor. Java is a very successful language.

JavaScript

JavaScript is a lightweight, interpreted scripting programming language. It is an open as well as cross-platform. JavaScript is a dynamic language which has object-oriented capabilities. Therefore it is complementary to and integrated with Java and HTML.

Web pages and many desktop and server programs use JavaScript. Here, it is must to know that JavaScript and Java are completely different languages in concept and design.

JavaScript code is written in tags “<script> </script>”. JavaScript provides rich interface and interaction for site users. JavaScript cannot be used for network applications.

Python

Python is a general-purpose, high-level, interpreted, procedural object-oriented programming language. Python is first released in 1991 by Guido Van Rossum. Python is popular and one of the widely used programming language, which is mainly used for a web application of server-side, mathematics, and system scripting. Python can work on different platforms like Windows, Linux, Mac etc.

Python is easy to learn because of its simple syntax just like the English language. The most recent version of python is Python 3. As python runs on an interpreter system, its code can be executed as soon as it is written. Python’s simplicity and readability make it more usable and popular.

PHP

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocessor created in 1994. PHP is server-side scripting language which is used to design dynamic and interactive web pages. PHP is an open source scripting language which executed on the server. It is freely available to download from its official website and easy to install and use. PHP is the core of the biggest blogging system WordPress. PHP files have extension “.php”. PHP functions include collecting data, send and receive cookies, add, delete and modify data in the database, encrypt data. PHP is easy to learn and compatible with all servers.

C#

C# is the multi-paradigm general-purpose programming language. It is a simple, modern object-oriented programming language. It was developed in the year 2000 by Microsoft. C# is easier to learn if you already have an understanding of C and C++. Important features of C# are multithreading, conditional compilation, standard library, automatic garbage collection, easy to use generics, Boolean conditions, integration with windows, assembly versioning and indexers. C# has many similarities with Java.

Swift

Swift is another general-purpose programming language developed by Apple Inc. in 2014 for iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and Linux. Swift is an open source and compiled programming language. Swift is the alternative for objective C therefore when it is introduced, it was described as ‘Objective C without the C’. The most important feature of Swift programming is that it makes use of safe programming patterns. Also, swift uses automatic memory management.

Rust

Rust ranked the “Most Popular” programming language in this year’s survey conducted by Stack Overflow. Rust is growing steadily in popularity according to Google Trends Data. Rust is a simple, safe and open source programming language. Its syntax is easy to understand and use. So there is no doubt that soon Rust will be in the competition with Java and Python. Rust does not use automatic garbage collection system. Rust use another resource for memory management through RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization).

Perl

Perl is known as “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”. Perl is created by Larry Wall in 1987. Perl is high level, dynamic, interpreted programming language. Perl is specially designed for text editing. Perl supports Unicode and both procedural and object-oriented programming. Perl is now the most popular programming language due to its text manipulations capabilities. Perl is very easy to learn, extremely portable and very quick.

Go

Go is Google’s programming language which was first launched in the year 2009. Programs written in Go are simple, safe and concise and its compilation time is fast. Extension of Go programs is “.go” i.e. as if the file name is added then ‘add.go’. Packages are used to construct a program. Go has Goroutines and Goroutines have faster startup time than threads and a single Goroutine can run on multiple threads.

 

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Most In-Demand Developer Jobs

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We have been keeping a close eye on the most in demand Software Developer Jobs and demand for Skills within the last quarter of the year!
So in 2018, what are the tech skills employers look for the most?

The percentage of job listings with Python has overtaken C# as the third most in-demand skill. The most notable change since Q2 is the jump in demand for Java by 8%. Although it comes second place to JavaScript, it’s the skill which has grown most rapidly in popularity in the second half of the year. The rise in demand for Python skills may relate to the surge in development of machine learning and AI in the UK.

Despite ongoing political and economic uncertainty, businesses are optimistic and are
continuing with their recruitment plans in 2018. For the IT sector there is an unprecedented demand that exists for skilled technology professionals, driven by regulatory changes, digital transformation projects and a continued emphasis on cyber security.

The competition for talent in the sector is intensifying, and for employers looking at
other ways to attract and retain skilled candidates is essential to avoid the negative
consequences of skills shortages such as a decrease in productivity, low employee
morale and hampered growth.

To find out more information on how you can make your business ready to attract top talent, or if you are a developer and you want advice on some of the best companies to work for in your area then please get in touch or call 0330 2233047

 

 

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