Popular programming languages or the Good, the Bad, and the Most Wanted of Coding tools. Software engineers feel strongly when choosing between one technology or another. And it sure pays to listen to them carefully. We certainly do, at Tremend. The yearly survey from Stack Overflow is one of the most relevant sources of industry insights. Here are some interesting findings for 2017.

Most popular programming languages

No major changes here – JavaScript is for the fifth year in a row the most commonly used language. There is one interesting change among the top five languages  – the use of Python overtook PHP for the first time in five years.

Most loved programming languages

What is love, in this case? Love is when developers want to continue to work with a language, more than any other. And for the second year in a row, Rust came at the top of the list.

Most dreaded languages

Where there is love, there is the opposite as well (no room for hate here, though). For the second year in a row, Visual Basic ranked as the most dreaded language. Meaning that developers are not keen to continue using the particular technology.

 Most wanted languages

As for the most wanted languages, Python shot from fourth place last year to the top of the list in 2017 (meaning that developers want to use this year more than any other).

 The database category

For the first time, Stack Overflow has asked developers about their feelings about databases. MySQL is the winner here.

Redis was the most loved database, meaning that proportionally, more developers wanted to continue working with it than any other database.

Meanwhile, Oracle is the most dreaded, while the most wanted database is MongoDB this year.

The framework category

In the world of programming frameworks, Node.js is a star, as both the most commonly used and the most wanted framework.

At the two extremes of the feelings roller coaster, React is the most loved among developers, while Cordova is the most dreaded.

There are a lot more than popular programming languages in the Stack Overflow survey. Read it for interesting developer insights about platforms, development environments, or top-paying technologies.

Needless to say, we are rather delighted to find the world’s most used, loved, and wanted technologies among the set of languages we deploy at Tremend. Download this presentation for a full list of technologies and frameworks that we are experts in.

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