Go, Kotlin, and Python remain hot languages in the latest HackerRank poll but previous Top 3 favorite Scala is dropping fast.
David Ramel tells us more in this post from ADTMag:
“Developers are as eager as they were last year to learn Go, Kotlin, and Python in 2019,” the firm said in announcing the results of its annual Developer Skills Report based on a survey of more than 71,000 developers in the company’s community. The technical recruiting firm emphasizes skills measurement to match up coders with employers, rather than credentials or pedigree.
“Interestingly, developers’ interest in Scala has dropped, whereas their interest in TypeScript has increased,” the report continued. “Scala was the 3rd most popular language that developers planned to learn in 2018 but dropped to 6th place in 2019.”
That want-to-learn list seems to show a slow changing of the guard, as those upstarts listed above differ from the most-popular list still dominated by veteran offerings such as Java, JavaScript and C-family options, though Python lives in both camps.
Speaking of the most popular languages, the firm noted the report’s 2018-based data differs from 2017 data in that JavaScript overtook Java as language the largest plurality of respondents identified as knowing.
“When comparing the most popular languages that developers were learning year over year, we found that developers were learning JavaScript at the most rapid rate,” the report said. “In 2018, 73 percent of developers said they knew JavaScript, up from 66 percent in 2017. This also makes JavaScript 2018’s most well-known language, compared to Java in 2017.”
