Most Popular Programming Languages State by State
Silicon Valley may be the hotbed of new and exciting tech, but most programmers and developers are working hard in other industries, like big business. A recent programmer Q&A from the site Experts Exchange delved deep into its own data to determine what exactly the most popular programming languages are in the United States.
The survey took a look at who was asking questions about which programming languages, which was one of the factors in determining which states used which programming languages. In addition to that, users who were qualified "Experts" on the site seemed to favor PHP heavily.
If you look at the data and simply go off of the number of questions asked then it's clear to see that Microsoft's .NET programming language is seeing increased use. However, most people in the business are not surprised by these results.
What this data also does is show those in the Silicon Valley that the popularity of the newest programming languages is insignificant when compared to the driving force of existing options. Some of the more trendy languages, like Ruby on Rails and Swift, don't even appear on the list.
So what are the most popular programming languages in the country? Here's the list:
- ASP
- Cold Fusion
- C++
- C#
- Delphi
- Java
- JavaJ2EE
- JavaScript
- .NET
- PHP
- Powershell
- Python
- Shell
- SQL
- VisualBasic
Just to note, West Virginia and North Dakota didn't return any significant data....coders must not exist there.
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