December 2014 - Tracking the most popular programming languages, databases and software development tools in whoishiring discussion threads.
The big story this month is seeing AngularJS reach the top 5. To see it reach that in about 2 years is a stunning rise, even in in today's fast-moving tech industry.
In another interesting development, Passion, though not a tech term, is now ubiquitious, having reached the top 10. No passion? Don't bother applying with these copmanies I guess.
In other news, not surprisingly, JavaScript continued its streak of victories whith Python the runner up again.
Compare JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Java
Compare C++, Scala, Clojure and Go
Compare Rails, node.js, PHP and Django
Compare AngularJS, Backbone, Ember and jQuery
Along with the usual suspects, the JavaScript popularity trend also popped up with addtion of React, Facebook's JS library, and it showing some rapid growth
Compare Postgresql, MySQL and SQL Server
MySQL jumped back on top after falling behind PostgreSQL last month.
Compare Mongodb, Cassandra, Riak and CouchDB
Compare Chef, Puppet, Ansible and the DevOps term itself
Puppet continues to show little to no growth, as Ansible continues its assault on Chef, soon to overtake it if the trends hold up.
| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | +1 |
| Python | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| iOS | 3 | 6 | +3 | 3 | 0 |
| Rails | 4 | 3 | -1 | 6 | +2 |
| AngularJS | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Ruby | 6 | 4 | -2 | 7 | +1 |
| Android | 7 | 7 | 0 | 4 | -3 |
| passionate | 8 | 13 | +5 | 13 | +5 |
| node.js | 9 | 11 | +2 | 16 | +7 |
| CSS | 10 | 12 | +2 | 29 | +19 |
| Java | 11 | 9 | -2 | 8 | -3 |
| AWS | 12 | 8 | -4 | 14 | +2 |
| MySQL | 13 | 18 | +5 | 20 | +7 |
| Postgresql | 14 | 10 | -4 | 11 | -3 |
| Front End | 15 | 14 | -1 | 15 | 0 |
| Backbone | 16 | 15 | -1 | 9 | -7 |
| Machine Learning | 17 | 17 | 0 | 24 | +7 |
| Full Stack | 18 | 16 | -2 | 17 | -1 |
| linux | 19 | 19 | 0 | 32 | +13 |
| passion | 20 | 29 | +9 | 25 | +5 |