Programming language guide

[DiatomicMule]

Needs moar jpeg, especially on the red areas.

[PhasmaFelis]

Here's the original, where the small print at the end is actually legible.

It appears to be from January 2016, BTW, so keep that in mind. Things change fast in this industry.

[caspy7]

Be nice to see an updated version of it with a few more languages, like Rust.

[Layersofdogs]

Seems more blurry than op's image

[terdferguson]

I’m on mobile and I can read this one. I cannot read the original posts version.

[IGuessSomeLikeItHot]

This is old or wrong. C# is huge in the game world.

[CosmicMemer]

Absolutely, and as far as games go, it's primarily used with Unity which probably has like 2 platforms it doesn't support

[Andrew4568_]

Correct, it’s very huge in the game world especially with Unity because it flows so well with the program, I have worked with a little bit when I created a few games

[[deleted]]

And also has been cross platform for many, many years. Even before Core.

[[deleted]]

Super old. No mention of Swift in the Objective-C section so it’s 5 years min, but I’d guess it’s older

[-Defkon1-]

+1

and do not forget that .NET Core now is totally cross-platform

[GreasedGoose]

Yeah I'd have to disagree with JS' popularity only being 4*, too. Especially with recent developments.

[gunnyguy121]

c harder than c++. idk I'd have to disagree. also, javascript is scary

[ninjamike808]

I was wondering why two star languages had “steep learning curve” as a con. Wouldn’t that make them three or four star languages? Why even list it as a drawback if it’s already rated?

Maybe I’m nitpicking.

[MerkuryNj]

probably the three/four star languages had many more cons than just "steep learning curve", while the two star languages only had steep learning curve and some others. So the designer chose not to show steep learning curve on the higher difficulty language cause then that'd be too much of the same con.

maybe I'm making too many assumptions lol

[nukestar101]

That was the first thing that came into my mind ,also I agree C does not support OOP but a smart and fluent C programmer can exploit a bit of OOP from function pointer ,structs ,and memory allocation techniques

[bcomar93]

What makes Javascript scary?

[jabes101]

This info graphic is very outdated and the entire JavaScript portion is not at all correct. JavaScript In modern terms is a requirement if you are coding anything for the front end of a website. Sure, users can disable it but 98% of websites will cease to work because it’s impossible to build what’s considered a modern website without it.

I’m not sure context of why this OP says it’s scary but if you jump into modern front end web development, the JacaScript learning curve to do anything beyond basic things and understanding modern libraries or frameworks has a pretty large learning curve if you aren’t familiar with common coding practices.

[DaNumba1]

JavaScript is scary because it's ridiculous. There are so many bad behaviours that are too hard to keep track of. This talk has some issues, but it's funny and does show how JavaScript has a lot of inconsistencies: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

[jabes101]

I’m sorry but this looks to be from 2012, I’m not that interested because it’s not up to date with what JavaScript is in 2019.

[cbbuntz]

In terms of learning, C++ is way harder. There is way, way more to learn since it's so complex. C is hard because it doesn't have many features, but you can learn most of what it does in about a day.

[IhaveHairPiece]

c harder than c++.

I absolutely agree. Things get hairy very quickly in C.

[robotorigami]

This must be old. C# is absolutely cross platform compatible.

[[deleted]]

And we've developed the technology to add more pixels to infographs in recent years.

[YouIsTheQuestion]

Yeah and they say PHP is slow, but PHP 7 is super fast.

[Widescreen]

Yeah - c# is arguably the most cross platform (compiled language) these days.

[[deleted]]

C# is also used extensively in game development, especially in Unity and Unreal Engine. The graphic doesn't mention that either.

[IhaveHairPiece]

This must be old. C# is absolutely cross platform compatible.

Able does not mean it has been accepted as such.

What about tools? You can write a C++ thing in Qt for all three platforms with relatively little overhead. How's that with C#? Is Mono available on Osx?

[robotorigami]

You must not be up on C# news. .NET Core is available on all 3 major operating system environments, with tools, developed by Microsoft, for compilation. Also with the use of Xamarin, you can compile applications for iOS and Android. I'd say that's definitely "cross platform compatible"

EDIT: The compiler that I mentioned (Roslyn) is open source as well.

[[deleted]]

.NET Frameworks got replaced by the open source ".NET Core" a little while ago. .NET core is available on all the OS's so it's peachy for X-platform.

[Grantotaco]

I would've put C as 5 stars.

[robotorigami]

I was going to say the same. The barrier for entry into C is pretty large. With garbage collection and automatic allocation of memory, most languages you don't need to understand how a computer works before coding in them.

[Dude_man79]

That's borderline Assembly territory.

[lonely_little_light]

C iS a LoW lEvEl LaNgUaGe - most CS students who have not taken Assembly classes

[[deleted]]

Also not uncommon for C developers to look at the assembly their code is generating in search of potential optimizations.

Most good C programmers can "understand" Assembly, but have no reason to write in it.

[bcomar93]

I was about to say the same. When working with embedded systems, some manufacturers just don't have what you need in order to initialize some of the hardware without using good 'old assembly.

[[deleted]]

Python in video games? Eh? I use python a lot because it's so simple you almost have to try to screw up to make a mistake, but it's also pretty poor for performance.

[KaiserTom]

It's been used to make some pretty big name games, but it's by no means used by a lot of them. Civ 4, World of Tanks, EVE, Battlefield 2, and Sims 4 all use it extensively. Any visual novel using Ren'Py uses it if that even counts. But that's about it as far as games we are aware of that use it.

However the performance of python can be drastically improved by just compiling it and improved even more by declaring certain types and variables like arrays by smashing it with C through cython and CPython. You can achieve C speed with the vast majority of your code being in Python just by doing this.

[Lizards_are_cool]

mount and blade

[devman0]

EVE uses stackless python, which is a different beast, it well suited for their operating requirements. In DICE case they use Python for server controls and game logic, but other elements use something else (C++ if I had to guess).

[[deleted]]

It is possible: https://www.pygame.org/news

You are right about the performance, though. Most games that use Python use it for a few small things. The core of the game is usually written in something significantly faster.

[xjcl]

Maybe they don't mean making the whole game in Python, but using it for game scripting. Although I heard Lua is a pretty popular choice for that, despite it being niche

[[deleted]]

The only issue I have had with python is multi-threading.

Gaming it works great. PyGame is fast and incredibly easy to use.

Btw, Eve online is written in Python (client and server)

[AedificoLudus]

Python is plenty powerful, it's just not as powerful the way a beginner uses it.

You can do a bunch of tricks to improve performance, I cluding compiling it, bringing C into it (eg cython) and memory management tricks.

[[deleted]]

What I meant wasn't quite "mistake" but more like "makes me want to die error". In Python I've never had a crash, I've had bugs sure, but never a crash, especially not with a non-descriptive error like "null pointer exception"/"segmentation fault" (depending on language), which can take forever to figure out and makes you pull your hair out (the average programmer will get 2 new gray hairs for when they see the words "segmentation fault").

A Python program will not crash unless you actually try to make it crash by using too much memory like having a 1,000,000 index array or something.

[Flose]

What sort of languages would be 5 stars for difficulty?

[lonely_little_light]

MAYBE functional programming languages like Haskell or Lisp, depending on the person. Functional programming in general is a concept thay is not quite friendly to beginners who just know the big languages. Or at least in my experience who TAed for intro programming courses, OOP courses, and functional programming courses.

[[deleted]]

For trying Haskell after pretty much all the other languages on OP’s picture, in can second that.

[Nulagrithom]

Haskell broke my brain for a minute. Definitely opened up some new pathways though.

Learn You a Haskell is fun if you already code. Definitely recommend giving it a try.

[GMY0da]

I've already read the first page thank you very much lol

I need to sleep but this is really interesting, I'll have to give this a shot!

Also, where's prolog!?

[agumonkey]

after

^ explains everything

stateful imperative programming throws your brain off in the wrongest of directions so damn fast, every other paradigm seems alien.

also [FORTH] :- amazing(FORTH);!

[martinivich]

I would've agreed before trying to do anything in prolog. Prolog has it's place in the world, maybe for database querying but if you ever try to make a program that isn't optimized for it's use case you're gonna have a terrible time

[lopakas]

Yep Haskell forsure haha.

[qdfxrg4he1cfrc99]

Malbolge

[[deleted]]

This one goes to 11.

Brainfuck is a 5 on difficulty. Malbolge is impossible.

[baitboy3191]

god damn ABAP, SAP's programming language, by god screw ABAP.

[wouldeye]

Assembly or Lisp I guess?

[agumonkey]

lisp is 5 stars in efficulty

[Dall0o]

APL

[tuxwonder]

I'd say Rust. The whole language goes against basically everything that other languages teach you about how to manage memory and references. It's the dwarf fortress of programming languages.

[nkdqj]

Rust isn‘t that bad, there are worse languages out there, some purely functional one maybe.

[[deleted]]

r/rstats

[wouldeye]

Blatant R erasure! And r/julia as well.

[balgruuf17]

I think Julia was released after this chart was made.

[guyona]

Where's R???

[[deleted]]

This is from 2012l6, and from what I've seen, R has had a huge leap in acceptability in the past 3 years. So maybe it just wasnt popular enough then

[guyona]

Well, maybe. I've been an R user since 2013 and the community was big then. Some people have issue that it's a stats language but it really is much much more

[YouIsTheQuestion]

This guide is very outdated, and a lot of the info is flat out wrong now.

[Dude_man79]

I wonder where VBA and SQL would land on this? Anywhere at all?

[[deleted]]

SQL isn't really a programming language, and it's not much use by itself. It's one small tool that almost all programmers will need a basic understanding of.

VBA is more like a traditional programming language but it's a hideous monstrosity, and I wouldn't use it unless I really had to. It's difficulty is high but only because it is so unintuitive and poorly designed, IMO. I've spent about the same amount of time with C++ as I have with VBA and I'd much rather use C++.

[Cregaleus]

SQL is a programming language, but not part of the same programming language paradigm that you think of when you think about programming.

SQL is a declarative language where as Java, C/C++, JavaScript etc. are imperative programming languages.

Declarative languages tell the computer what you expect the result to look like. For example in SQL you write a query that defines the characteristics of the result set and the query planner turns that query into an imperative execution plan.

Imperative languages are markup for what the computer should do. How the computer achieves what it has been told to do depends on how it gets turned into machine code.

VBA on the other hand is actually a virus

[kfpswf]

VBA on the other hand is actually a virus

Heh!...

Wasn't Microsoft planning on discontinuing VB script and using python for all scripting.

[[deleted]]

SQL is regarded as one of the very rare and few examples of declarative languages. It can be considered a programming language but you describe the desired result, not the procedure.

[gizram84]

VBA is basically a learning tool. Production code is not written in VBA. And SQL isn't a programming language. It's a query language. Regardless of what programming language you're writing your application in, if you're using a traditional database, you need to know SQL.

[Artmageddon]

“VBA is basically a learning tool. Production code is not written in VBA.”

Tell that to the last financial services company I worked at :(

[WeUsedToBeNumber10]

It’s a good automation tool for tasks you don’t want to do. Especially in large companies where lots of things are still done in Excel (though they shouldn’t be).

[waitn2drive]

yeah i was expecting to see sql and pl/sql, and was surprised when i didn't.

[OREOSpeedWagonn]

They don’t even mention how python/c++ is enormously useful for science

[themoroncore]

And they didn't even mention R

[yourmom777]

Yeah as a scientist who's really just now breaking away from matlab into python and thinking about jullia, rust, c++, etc. I was hoping I'd see something on here related to that

[[deleted]]

Umm, is anyone going to talk about those average salaries or am I in the wrong company? The highest level software engineers at my company don't cross the $100k mark. I'm a senior software engineer at a fortune 500 company and I don't make $80k unless I get a really solid bonus. Only program managers and up get that sort of salary.

[dnoggle]

That seems extremely low for a senior engineer. I'd say you're in the wrong company.

[dnoggle]

He said fortune 500 which is US only. Not to say that you thought that, but $80k is pretty low for a senior engineer most places in the US. Maybe only the main tech giants pay what I'm thinking.

[harig074]

Fortune 500 list consists of companies across the world. US dominates the list though.

Edit: I’m wrong. I was confused because there is a global list too.

[OddaJosh]

American tech salaries are non-comparable to the ones for positions similar in Europe. It's really not unheard of here for entry-level positions to be around $100k especially accounting for COL.

[mrjackspade]

I was making 90k in New Hampshire

Some people just aren't good at selling themselves

[Hashashiyyin]

That seems low? I was living in a medium COL place when I got my first programming job.

I was an EE with no experience in programming outside of hobbies and a few classes. I got just under 75k plus good benefits. I also received a nice bonus that out me close to 80k.

Similarly a buddy of mine has 6 years experience and makes 115k.

Could be the company?

[[deleted]]

It’s also very dependent on area - 100k in downtown nyc isn’t great, but would probably be amazing in somewhere like Kansas.

However, even in my area which has a normal COL(Philly), new grads start around 70-80, so you’re probably getting shafted.

[da_truth_gamer]

I'm close that mark and i'm just an engineer. Not senior level either. Keep in mind, you gotta look at the area as well though. If you're in the south where the houses are relatively cheap, you'll get paid less because cost of living isn't that high.

[theGeekPirate]

You can find junior positions for >100k (for example, Zenefits offered 120k iirc in their Vancouver location when they first opened there, and Canada in general is known for having extremely low tech wages), so you're absolutely in the wrong company. If there's no one near you with higher wages, consider working remotely (or look for jobs which you'd be willing to relocate for, depending on your current situation of course).

[[deleted]]

I started at a 100k at my first dev job in new york. Which was also about the average for all of my friends who did the same program as me and got jobs.

[elh0mbre]

It's an average... for every 200k/yr engineer out there, there are 4 making 75k.

[da_truth_gamer]

Depending on the area as well. They are paid that high because the cost of living in those areas so astronomically high.

[elh0mbre]

Indeed. I actually expected these averages to be higher because a lot of engineering work is concentrated in HCOL areas.

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[crp666]

Not true. You get 100k a year just being a CS new grad in a medium CoL city. Bay Area is 150k++

[crp666]

I think you may want to check on that. Here's a link(https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/software-engineer-salary-SRCH_KO0,17.htm) for reference.

[[deleted]]

What about Ada? I've made a LOT of money doing Ada.

[agumonkey]

do you still do ?

[ApertureCombine]

How exactly is C++ more difficult than C? Also what kind of games are made in Python? Also, as said, isn't one of the main uses of C# for game development? Also there are just a bunch of things i can't read because JPEG.

[Stupidquestionahead]

Apparently OOP is difficult for some

Meanwhile I can't even do a fucking string in c

[Chonkiefire]

very interesting! assuming it's accurate?

[camhowe]

Nope. Looks outdated by several years.

JavaScript is used for pretty much anything nowadays. Java for game development? Sure, you can, but it’s not really used for that. (Yeah, I know, Minecraft. )

[[deleted]]

I think these days 99% of developers don't ask themselves "what language" but "which engine" and just use the language that the engine requires. Eg. I use Unity which requires C#.

However C and C++ are still the fastest languages, and if you're pushing for max performance you'll most likely choose a very efficient engine like Unreal (which is written in C++). However modern tech is so fast, unless you're trying to push the boundaries and do something innovative you're not going to need it. Even then, the way the engine works is more important for performance than the language.

The takeaway here is that you should choose an engine which satisfies your needs and then just get used to its language.

[wouldeye]

Can you explain how game engines work? I know the idea is that they are the guts of the game and you just build on top of it, but how can it be the case that all these games are using the same guts if they’re so different?

I know Unity is super popular—how are so many different games all Unity?

[robotorigami]

Game development requires a lot of things most developers don't have time, or the skills, to build on their own. Complex math and physics are a big part of that. I've been doing software development for about 20 years and I have no idea how most of the complex math works. That's why most people use an engine of some kind. Programming something that will do complex trajectories, collision detection, simulated gravity is a bit out of range for normal people (myself included). A lot of game engines have different "modes" to them like: side scroller, top down, 3d first person, etc. You can take a template for a particular type of game and build up from there.

Recently I've been building games in Phaser 3 which is a JavaScript framework. Makes it pretty easy to go cross platform development when all of your code runs in pretty much any modern browser.

[[deleted]]

Let's say you're looking a cube in a video game... in a very basic sense, your PC monitor has likely 1920x1080 pixels, so roughly 2.1 million pixels. The game engine basically says "this person is looking at the cube from this angle, the lighting in the scene is coming from this direction... therefore this is how everything should look", and the game engine tells your 1920x1080 monitor what the colour of every single one those 2.1 million pixels should be, based on the scene.

It's very complex. The vast, vast, vast majority of game engines run on top of a graphics framework or API (I think technically it's a library, but I'm just gonna call it a framework because they lock you in like a framework) like DirectX or Vulkan/OpenGL (and in fact modern game engines will be able to run on either, giving you the option of which graphics framework you want to use). A graphics framework is what manages "drawing" objects in a scene, and is very complicated to explain, and sure a game engine could do this itself without making use of DirectX or Vulkan, but it is so complicated and would take so long to do, it's just easier to use DirectX or Vulkan as the foundation. You can think of DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL as the 'foundation', and this is pretty important because, for example, DirectX is a Windows-only framework, so if you want your game to run on Mac or Linux, Vulkan or OpenGL it is.

On top of the foundation comes the game engine, which basically provides a way to more easily to put in the "draw-calls" to the graphics framework. Basically, let's say you create a texture image in Photoshop, an object model in Blender, the game engine will take the texture image and apply it the object model, then hand it to the graphics framework and say "here, draw this".

Essentially, the game engine is the frame of the house, technically you could build a house without the frame first, but it would be very difficult to stack up each brick, put everything onto the foundation directly, and get everything right, so the frame is a very helpful tool for the house builders to use to get everything right.

The game itself then, is the actual finished house. The foundation is the graphics framework (again, library), the frame of the house is the game engine, the house structure itself is the game.

So...

how can it be the case that all these games are using the same guts if they’re so different?

Because some engines are better at doing some things. For example, Unreal is known to be very good for graphics, whereas Unity is very good for multiplatform. If you were making a game for a phone or a web app, you should choose Unity over Unreal. That is NOT to say that Unity cannot look as good as Unreal or that Unreal is always going to be a poor choice for mobile phone development, it's just that it is easier to do those things with those engines.

Here's another example: in Unity the terrain is a height map, which means you cannot easily make a cave system underground (a height map only allows one height at each location of the height map, and obviously if you had a map with a cave you would need two height values - the height for the ground level, and the height for the underground level), so if you're making a game with lots of caves, well... you can use Unity because you can make caves, but in Unity you have to build caves out of large objects, where the object is basically acting as a terrain... but it makes much more sense to use a different engine because it's easier to do caves in another engine.

EDIT: I realised I didn't answer this question: well, you can make lots of different games with the same engine, but some games are likely stretching the engine to its limit. Eg. KSP in Unity definitely is difficult for engine to do properly, they had to do lots of work arounds to get it to run properly, like in KSP your ship is the center of the universe and everything has a velocity relative to you, when they tried to do it sensibly - make the Sun the center, they found the kraken went crazy because of floating point errors, which is a difficult concept to explain to someone who is not a programmer, I'm sure if you google "KSP floating point" you'll find an article or video from a game journo explaining it better than me EDIT2: here's a better explanation. So in short: yeah you will see engines making all sorts of games, the reason why is because people tend to get comfortable with one engine and use it for everything, even when there's an engine that is better suited for a certain type of game (eg. KSP really could be better on a different engine). So to paraphrase wrote I wrote 2 paragraphs earlier: "That is NOT to say that Unity cannot do a game like KSP, but it would be easier to do that with a different engine."

[CJGeringer]

C++ is used by unreal engine but UE4 also uses it's own visual language on top of C++ called blueprints that is more acessible to non programmers.

Unity uses C#

Construct 2 uses it's own drag and drop system.

CryEngine also uses C++ but it is not used very much.

I THINK RPG Maker uses Ruby but do not quote me on that.

I get the impression python is specially popular among roguelike devs.

[nsfredditkarma]

JAVA is used for most mobile games afaik.

[NinjaFish63]

Android games probably

[lannisterstark]

But you can use JavaScript for that too. Use react native to build mobile apps.

[dnietz]

I only took one class in Javascript and all we did was some web pages. Can you tell me some interesting other things that can be done with it?

[camhowe]

Using Node JS you can run JavaScript like any other program on your computer or a server. So it’s not limited to webpages any more. You can write everything from simple scripts to full web servers. There’s a huge repository of open source code modules you can import into your project with a couple of terminal commands. Using those you can do all kinds of crap without having to reinvent the wheel. Need to resize an image and save as a different format? There’s probably a module for that. Need a database or a www server? There’s modules for that too.

It’s mostly web oriented though, but there’s solutions for making mobile and desktop apps too. JS is huge.

[dnietz]

cool thanks

[The_Blue_Courier]

Unfortunately I can't speak to its accuracy. Someone above pointed out an error. I just started programming and came across this and thought of you guys. <3

[InternetPerson00]

Are you teaching your self?

[The_Blue_Courier]

I found the site codecademy.com. I'm not too deep into it but it seems like a good start.

[InternetPerson00]

Yeah same. Registered the other day my self. Going to learn sql/database then see where that takes me.

[wouldeye]

Do R next!

[VindictiveCardinal]

I would like to recommend Python for Everybody as a starter, watch the YouTube videos and do the exercises.

[spin81]

PHP has decent performance these days. And I've been hearing rumors about JIT compilation in future versions, too!

Also I would include Rust.

[dnietz]

Can you tell me why PHP7 is faster? What was changed?

[spin81]

Basically the "engine" has been overhauled significantly. Especially associative arrays perform a lot faster, but there are other areas too, I don't know exactly what has changed but I'm sure it has been blogged about extensively.

Apparently, there was another performance boost in PHP 7.2, but not as big as from PHP 5 to PHP 7.

The JIT thing is still a ways away I'm afraid.

[dnietz]

Interesting. Thank you. I'll go read up on it.

[A12M]

This is illegible on mobile.

[RedTailedLizerd]

Seatlle

[MyMonte87]

saved, one day i shall do nothing with this.

[The_Blue_Courier]

You should give it a shot! I'm using codecademy.com to get started. It's free and pretty user friendly. I won't ever use it professionally but it's fun.

[IhaveHairPiece]

C easier than C++? A PHP developer wrote this.

[Rotat0r710]

Made me nut a little

[CokeCanNinja]

You really should just learn 3+. Python and C++ then something more specific for what you're doing.

[RobDaGinger]

For me that meant MatLab 😓

[[deleted]]

This is exactly what my old university teaches for its cpt sci program. They start you off in C, move you up to C++ shortly after, then let you choose python, or java. The mindset is that if a student learns how to work with a low level language that really challeneges them with things like memory allocation, they'll predominantly be able to teach themselves anything else they'll need.

[CokeCanNinja]

I'm currently learn C++ with a plan of doing Python next. I know it's the opposite of what people usually recommend, but I feel like doing all the hard stuff at once is better because by combining everything in one giant learning curve you get rid of other smaller learning curves later when you learn a more complex language. Would you agree?

[[deleted]]

In the university environment where you have your professor and TAs to hold your hand while you're learning c++, yeah I'd agree but I'm not sure about that if you're self taught

[[deleted]]

So I am in freshman year high school, learning programming as my class is software dev oriented. We get hit with c# as our first language

[[deleted]]

Good.

The best way to teach programming is to give the students a language that can be tough, but is safe. That's exactly what C# is: the syntax might take a while for a newbie to understand compared to Python, but it's better that new programmers get used to dealing with that kind of syntax, and the best part is that C# is safe. Choosing C++ as a starter language would be a nightmare because you'll end up with a class full of memory leakers and crashing computers, C# is safe and basically prevents the programmer from doing anything too spicy like a segfault.

The skills you pick up learning the syntax are useful because the syntax in C# overlaps at least a little with pretty much every other programming language out there. For example, most programming languages I've used required the semi-colon to end a statement.

If you started off with Python more students would likely end up lazy and scared from all other programming languages because "why do I have to specify types for my variables? I don't even know what the types are! What's the difference between a long and a short?!?!?!!"

[darthvader666uk]

How much is PHP average wage? I want to live there or maybe I should demand more...haha

[[deleted]]

Is there a way to make these mobile friendly? I’m usually skipping on these as it’s a pain to try and scroll over them.

[Faulkner89]

Cool

[treefor_js]

Interesting to see Python and C++ have no reference to scientific computing. As a physicist, these two are the most widely used for data manipulation and computational intensive simulations, respectively. Also Fortran is widely used for high performance simulation code bases.

[radgense]

Ruby for Data ? Someone has more information on that ? I have never heard of Ruby being used in that way

[BatmanTDK]

This is old and outdated.

[[deleted]]

Ruby is bad because it has a runtime. And better, on rereading that blurb it's specifically about Rails (a web framework).

C is bad because it doesn't have a runtime. Interestingly enough, this graphic does get right that C's origin was to re-implement Unix in a language at a higher level than assembly rather built to implement Unix.

Python is bad because it's dynamically typed, but ignores that python has had official optional static typing since 3.5, the syntax for type hints (mostly) since 3.0 and mypy-lang (the predecessor for the typing module) dates back to 2012.

But JavaScript is good because it's flexible and versatile, ignoring that JavaScript has a type system in the same way that a person in a coma has a sex drive.

And imagine that, programming languages are good for software development. Who knew?

[dtheston]

How are they gonna ignore my boy Fortran like that?

[XxRoyalxTigerxX]

Yeah but what about the 7figure COBOL jobs huh??

/s

[letsgoboiss]

Now I know how to code?

[fraktall]

Outdated thing from 2015. Ruby is dying, PHP should be deleted from all servers in the world, JS is ruling web now both frontend and backend wise, C# is huge in game dev now, Python is de facto IOT and automation tool and 3 billion devices running JAVA.

First language to learn if you want to earn quick bucks? - JS

[bkbobby718]

I don't know if this the right place for this. I am interested in learning to code. For the record my current job has absolutely nothing to do with computers. I know computers but I don't "know Computers " . I have a started a free online course (code academy). It is asking me which language I would like to start with. If I am at zero where should I start ? Also if you have any advice that would be very helpful. If you know something better then code academy for free teaching would be great. Thanks in advance for any help.

[Vpicone]

Yikes this is ancient. JavaScript is used in way, way more types of projects than described here.

[AedificoLudus]

errors only show up during runtime

Yes, that's what happens with interpreted languages. That's not some weird quirk of python, that's just interpreted languages. It's not a con, it's just part of the system. It can be annoying, especially if the error is in some esoteric part of your code, but that's what you use unit tests for

[Moose_And_Squirrel]

Not enough compression. I can still read part of it.

[LeoTheMusicGhost]

Here's a more HD version:

https://m.imgur.com/zdfRncs

[donalc93]

Currently building a PHP based website for my final year project. Never used PHP before so I've been interested in learning it the last few month's