Programming Languages (2 blogmarks)

There is a big grain of salt to be taken with any ranking like this. Nevertheless I find it interesting to 1) see the quick jump for Python in recent years that correspond with LLM proliferation and 2) the sharp decline over the past year.

The rise makes sense if you consider that a lot of AI and LLM tooling (e.g. pytorch) and general data science and data processing tooling are in the Python ecosystem. I'm not sure what the decline means. If I had to make a guess — LLM models and harnesses have gotten so good in the past year that developers are doing a lot less google searches and a lot more prompting as they use Python (and other languages).

Ruby -- the language that my career is mostly built on -- is down in the 30th spot.

This index was completely new to me. I was interested to see Python, C++, and Java in the top three spots; SQL and Go holding strong at 7 and 8 respectively; Ruby at the 19th spot; Prolog, of all things, in the 20th spot; and lastly, the omission of TypeScript.

Heard about this via Nate Berkopec.