{"id":685,"date":"2018-03-15T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/?p=685"},"modified":"2018-03-19T11:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T11:16:59","slug":"redmonk-language-rankings-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/2018\/03\/15\/redmonk-language-rankings-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"RedMonk Language Rankings Over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2018\/03\/20180319-redmonklang-2012-2018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-687\" src=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2018\/03\/20180319-redmonklang-2012-2018.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1044\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2018\/03\/20180319-redmonklang-2012-2018.png 1044w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2018\/03\/20180319-redmonklang-2012-2018-300x219.png 300w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2018\/03\/20180319-redmonklang-2012-2018-768x561.png 768w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2018\/03\/20180319-redmonklang-2012-2018-1024x747.png 1024w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2018\/03\/20180319-redmonklang-2012-2018-480x350.png 480w, https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2018\/03\/20180319-redmonklang-2012-2018-859x627.png 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1044px) 100vw, 1044px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update: March 19th<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; there was a typo in our initial data scrape, and Python v&#8217;s PHP were in the wrong positions for 2018. Updated now.<\/p>\n<p>Following our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&amp;vertical=default&amp;q=redmonklang&amp;src=typd\">twitter chat<\/a> yesterday on the <a href=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2018\/03\/07\/language-rankings-1-18\/\">latest RedMonk Language Rankings<\/a> I created a visualisation to highlight relative movements over time (<a href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/files\/2018\/03\/20180315-redmonklang-2012-2018-logo.png\">large version)<\/a>. For a more detailed discussion on the most recent rankings please refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2018\/03\/07\/language-rankings-1-18\/\">Stephen O\u2019Grady\u2019s write up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most striking aspect is just how stable the top ten languages are. This reflects the investment people make in learning a language and the reality that shifts in the languages that businesses use to develop software happens slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Other aspects that stand out are the rapid decline in Perl, the stabilisation of Ruby and the ascent of Swift. But sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: March 19th &#8211; there was a typo in our initial data scrape, and Python v&#8217;s PHP were in the wrong positions for 2018. Updated now. Following our twitter chat yesterday on the latest RedMonk Language Rankings I created a visualisation to highlight relative movements over time (large version). For a more detailed discussion on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-data","category-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/fryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}