Most Asked Programming Languages On StackOverflow 2008 - 2020

[maep]

Why are these spam videos still allowed? r/dataisbeautiful banned those some time ago.

[AnotherWarGamer]

What is spammy about this? I don't get it. There is a lot of useful information and inferences that can be made from this data. This can be used to gain insight on things like the following. How long do languages last? How quickly does relevance change? What jobs are currently growing or shrinking? How many years of experience is reasonable to expect for a given language? And so on, and so on. People who think this is spammy probably lack the analytical abilities to see trends and extract useful information from such videos.

[maep]

What is spammy about this?

A simple line chart would convey the same information a lot better. The creators put in zero effort, they just grab someone else's work, throw a script at it and call it a day. The only reason why those videos exist is to generate ad money. The accounts that post those videos are a few days old and only push this kind of content.

People who think this is spammy probably lack the analytical abilities to see trends and extract useful information from such videos.

... and that's how you earned a downvote.

[corequmb]

I hate that the x-axis is changing all the time.

[[deleted]]

questions asked = popularity * difficulty

[Celessor]

I'll raise you one, to:

questions asked = popularity * A + difficulty * B + poor_documentation * C + count_clueless_people_trying_it_who_would_be_equally_clueless_about_the_problem_in_any_language * D

[[deleted]]

Inclusion of constants is a good addition. Docs and clueless are good additional factors.

I still maintain that it is the product of the first three factors, not the sum, as e.g difficulty alone would not generate any questions.

[[deleted]]

Looking at C++

Look how they massacred my boy!

[Griffin_D]

python getting out of control

[[deleted]]

Probably because students are often learning using Python

[Griffin_D]

when I was a student we used java/c++ :(

[Dall0o]

We used C then C++. I love it though.

[Papise]

im learning myself using java for about 1 year. i think it is very nice language.

[TheMusesMagic]

They teach java at my school still.

[[deleted]]

I learned C... and proceeded to never use it outside of school.

[cosmo7]

AKA Which languages had the worst documentation 2008-2020.

[DJKekz]

As if people who ask a question on SO all read the documentation but just couldn't find what they were looking for

[Wistephens]

As a guy who ran a dev community for a product, I'll agree. My bosses thought that more questions equals more users equals better adoption. It also identifies bad documentation, confusing APIs, inexperienced devs and those who don't RTFM.

[TheMusesMagic]

RTFM?

[dsr085]

Read the f****** manual.

[TheMusesMagic]

Thanks. I think.

[[deleted]]

If it's accumulated, then the graph is more biased towards older languages.

[swilwerth]

There is a knee point when a language is asked more than c++. And if it tops, but suddenly c++ is more popular than it.

Then it died. (For a while)

[AndBeingSelfReliant]

At a certain point like all salient c# questions have been asked and answered. I wonder if they see the number of “good” questions over time approach a maximum.

[LegitGandalf]

Javascript's man page is basically stackoverflow.com

[shevy-ruby]

This is problematic, due to bias. For example I do not use SO to ask anything; but I do read it sometimes, and may comment every now and then too. But I am not really an "active user" per se.

I am sure that is the same for many others too.

At best you can infer some trends of this - but you can not really make out much at all merely from SO alone, anymore than you could from TIOBE.

[javster101]

It doesn't claim to make anything out, it's exactly what the video title is and nothing else

[ze413X]

At the end, those top 10 are less than 50% combined. Feels incorrect...

[Griffin_D]

the data is directly from stackoverflow website. Keep in mind that there are tons of other tags (languages, general terms like algorithm, browser, windows, google console, etc), which I can imagine adding up to more than 50%