The Twitter #Code2014 ranking have become a bit of a tradition. At the end of the year everyone votes for the programming languages they used, or were their favorite for the year. Then they all get tabulated up to see how they rank. Once again Delphi did quite well, coming it at #9, just ahead of other mainstream languages like C and C++ as well as niche languages like Objective-C and Swift (developing for only one platform is so 2013). It was neck and neck with C#, ending with only 11 votes different.
Delphi finished 9th in the #Code2014 rankings on Twitter
There are actually still people voting, but the deadline was Friday, so the votes don’t count. I still appreciate the enthusiasm. Watching Delphi climb the charts was a real treat, and shows two things:
- Delphi is still a very popular language
- The Delphi community is amazing
I believe this second point to be the most important one. The community really came together to vote for Delphi and move it up the rankings. Makes me happy to be part of such an amazing community.
| # | Language | Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | javascript | 2414 |
| 2 | python | 1355 |
| 3 | java | 1317 |
| 4 | ruby | 1044 |
| 5 | sql | 936 |
| 6 | php | 882 |
| 7 | bash | 871 |
| 8 | c# | 814 |
| 9 | delphi | 803 |
| 10 | c | 692 |
| 11 | c++ | 598 |
| 12 | go | 566 |
| 13 | clojure | 504 |
| 14 | haskell | 452 |
| 15 | scala | 449 |
| 16 | objective-c | 375 |
| 17 | swift | 343 |
| 18 | livecode | 280 |
| 19 | coffeescript | 262 |
| 20 | f# | 246 |
Looking at the top languages, they mostly have a web development theme. I’ve heard before that Twitter seems to have a web development bias, and this seems to reinforce that. Also since you are allowed to vote for more than one language we see SQL with a very high ranking, even though I imagine it had very few votes just for it (I may be wrong, but it seems like the kind of language you use with a general purpose language).