/Stephen O'Grady

The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: June 2022 tl;dr: Top 5 in order are JS, Python, Java, PHP and C#, with the following trends to note: (1) Despite its meteoric rise, TypeScript has stalled in the rankings holding its ground at eighth. (2) Go has also stalled, never placing higher than 14th and having dropped into 16 for the last three runs.

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The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2021 tl;dr: Interesting trends to note: TypeScript’s ascent up the rankings continues, Ruby's downward trajectory may be not be "gentle", Go seems static or in decline, and more.

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The Developer Experience Gap tl;dr: There are an abundance of tools to create systems that "shepherd code from its earliest juvenile days in version control through to its adult stage in production." These systems are not cohesive but fragmented, pieced together. The system is an afterthought. Stephan outlines five adjectives describing the next generation of the developer experience.

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The Three Characteristics Of Fast Growing Programming Languages tl;dr: (1) Assimilation: languages that are able to intermingle with large existing language communities e.g. Typescript.(2) Security: Languages with built in security capabilities e.g. Kotlin (3) Versatility: ability to traverse a wide range of use cases e.g. Java.

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The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings tl;dr: Asses languages both by popularity (GitHub) and my discussion (StackOverflow) to extract insights into potential future adoption trends.

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The Cloud And Open Source Powder Keg tl;dr: Commercial open source vendors are inevitably heading into conflict with cloud companies, as seen in the ongoing chess match between Elastic and Amazon.

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