Ode to the javascript would be a better title. Yes, javascript is getting more popular but what would be interesting is to see how javascript growth compares with growth of it's derivatives or languages that compile to it. The sheer amount work done to avoid Javascript at its current state is mind-boggling.
Wait. Python is growing? Somehow something feels off. I'm guessing that's not in the web dev field but rather in the data analysis field. Been keeping an eye out for remote web dev work with a company using python and best practices from extreme programming (especially TDD) and it's almost impossible. The most common stack I see from that kind of company is rails or a js based stack (purely subjective observation there).
> I'm guessing that's not in the web dev field but rather in the data analysis field.
I believe this is correct. Python is not likely growing in app development, but for data analysis and related backend tasks - in the same areas R is seeing a popularity boost.
It is, but does not need to be destructively so. Become an expert in a few, and competent in several (over time). If app dev is your thing, with Ruby/Rails and JS you probably can't go wrong. Pick up some PHP for when you (will) encounter it.
Client-side Dart code, yes. But that's something you had to do for compatibility reasons anyways.
Also, don't forget that Dart also exists outside of browsers. It's a fast scripting language with excellent tooling. I use it for almost everything nowadays.
They are also working on a second JIT-free VM (Fletch) for iOS and similar locked-down environments. It's small, highly concurrent, pretty fast, and it supports atomic code updates via some wire protocol. So, Dart doesn't just compete with TypeScript on the browser side, it also completes with languages like Ruby, Python, and PHP on the server side and even with compact embedding-friendly languages like Lua.
Dart's future looks bright, but it's definitely a lot less browser-centric than initially anticipated.
Well, to be fair, saying a JS code-slave (of which I am one) really likes TypeScript is like saying a malnourished man lost for a month in Death Valley sustaining only on dead maggots and his own urine really likes dining at the Home Town Buffet. He would already have been overjoyed with some coffee and harmony, yet the gods decided to give him a real meal.
You won't find a single Javascript engineer who hasn't been tortured by "Undefined is not a function" or worse on a daily basis, so something that promises to liberate us from this evil is always appreciated.
The second half of the article sounds like a sales pitch.
It would have been nice to see some thoughtful analysis based on the deltas of the languages from those rankings over 2014. All of those rankings are biased in their own ways, hence all of them being wildly different, but I think looking at how languages change across them paints an interesting picture.
Will be interesting to see how Microsoft adopting GitHub and Open Source effects these numbers next year. Although I suspect the cross platform .NET support would make more of an impact.
