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Python is still the most popular coding language, but challengers are gaining ground
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I really wonder about their methodology. JavaScript/Typescript is nearly ubiquitous in webdev, and has been making strides in the backend space for almost a decade now. No matter how you feel about it (yeah it's terrible, I've been press-ganged into it this year) it's a real force in the marketplace.
It's super surprising to me it's still behind C and C++.
C/C++ still has a huge place in firmware, microcontrollers, operating systems, drivers, application development, video games, real-time systems and so on. It's a totally different space of programming to webdev, which might explain the surprise.
No! C is legacy! No one uses it anymore! It's too hard!
/s
I mean it's not hard so much as very dated and a bit shit.
I could use raw pointers in c# if I wanted to. But it's just not a great way to do things.
C will likely have a place where low languages are required for a long time. But everywhere else there's little reason to choose over more modern languages.
I'm not really a webdev, more backend or full stack at this point. I do know about C & C++ strong presence in firmware, OS, HPC, video gaming, and elsewhere.
But by the numbers there's a lot more webdevs than any other kind out there, and that doesn't even touch on NodeJS leaking into backend and elsewhere.