Application Development: Groovy, JavaScript, Ruby Among Fastest Growing Programming Languages
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Programmers flock to where the action is and where the jobs are. If an eWEEK survey of a jobs index is any indication, the action—and the jobs—are around Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java, C#, C, Fortran, Cobol, JavaScript, Groovy and F#. The trend data is derived from millions of jobs indexed by Simply Hired, a job search engine based in Silicon Valley that aims to build the largest online database of jobs on the planet, according to the company.??íThe data shows the percentage of jobs that have increased (or decreased) for various programming languages since November 2009. In the time frame this slide show depicts, Groovy saw the largest increase in jobs, followed by C# and—surprisingly—COBOL. There were small increases in the percentages of jobs for Perl and C++ programmers. And jobs for Fortran programmers actually decreased over the time period. Meanwhile, F#, a functional language, saw appreciative growth. Also, August marked the first time F# cracked the TIOBE Index's top 20 programming languages. The TIOBE Index measures the popularity of programming languages based on the number of developers who use them.
