A little over a year ago I asked readers which languages and environments they thought would be prevalent in 2013.Here are the results after roughly one year and thousands of votes later. You can still particpate, just scroll down and rank the languages as you see fit.
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I was digging around in the archives of Red Canary’s predecessor when I came across this ranked list of programming languages that were most in demand by employers in 2001.MOST POPULAR LANGUAGES (BASED ON EMPLOYER DEMAND) 2001
1. C++
2. Windows NT4
3. Oracle
4. Java
5. HTML
6. ASP
7. Visual Basic 6
8. DB2
9. Cobol
10. ANSI-C
Seeing that list got me to thinking about the nature and future of coding. What languages or splinter languages would dominate the list in 2013? Certainly not Cobol and ANSI-C :) Where will .Net and Java be in 6 years? What about xml and the surging popularity of Ajax? Will PERL and Lisp coders be able to transition to Ruby? Will they need to? What about young languages like Lua?
I’m not smart enough to see into 2013’s crystal ball, so here’s a list of 20-odd languages. Assign up to 10 stars to as many languages as you like (according to how relevant they will be in 6 years).
10 stars = extremely relevant
1 star = irrelevant
no star = dead or on life-support by 2013
Remember, this is not a list of today’s most popular languages, but which languages you think will be dominant in 2013.