November 2014 - Tracking the most popular programming languages, databases and software development tools in whoishiring discussion threads.
JavaScript racks up its third win in a row with another strong showing, leaving Python to come in second again. Rails, Ruby and iOS round out the top 5. Elsewhere in the top 10, a little shakeup had node.js and AWS (amazon web services, i.e. "the cloud") coming up and Java taking a big tumble out of the Top 10.
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
Compare Postgresql, MySQL and SQL Server
Compare Mongodb, Cassandra, Riak and CouchDB
Compare Chef, Puppet, Ansible and the DevOps term itself
| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Python | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Rails | 3 | 4 | +1 | 4 | +1 |
| Ruby | 4 | 3 | -1 | 6 | +2 |
| iOS | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| AngularJS | 6 | 8 | +2 | 8 | +2 |
| Android | 7 | 6 | -1 | 7 | 0 |
| node.js | 8 | 17 | +9 | 13 | +5 |
| AWS | 9 | 15 | +6 | 32 | +23 |
| CSS | 10 | 9 | -1 | 16 | +6 |
| Postgresql | 11 | 21 | +10 | 19 | +8 |
| passionate | 12 | 10 | -2 | 15 | +3 |
| Java | 13 | 7 | -6 | 3 | -10 |
| Front End | 14 | 12 | -2 | 18 | +4 |
| Open Source | 15 | 20 | +5 | 11 | -4 |
| linux | 16 | 13 | -3 | 20 | +4 |
| MySQL | 17 | 11 | -6 | 22 | +5 |
| Backbone | 18 | 25 | +7 | 9 | -9 |
| Full Stack | 19 | 16 | -3 | 17 | -2 |
| Redis | 20 | 27 | +7 | 23 | +3 |