April 2017 - Tracking the most popular programming languages, databases and software development tools in whoishiring discussion threads.
Python is holding off React as of today with 143 mentions to React's 141 in the April edition of Hacker News Hiring Trends. Even with Python's consistent dominance over the years, React, the relative newcomer is reaching new heights still, with nearly 20% of posting reach this month. But, watch out React fans, it's not all upside for React. Vue.js makes an entrace on list of the fastest rising technologies.
Compare JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Java
Compare C++, Scala, Clojure and Go
Compare Rails, Node.js, PHP and Django
Node.js beat Rails for the 7th straight month, quite an impressive streak in this back and forth competition for the server-side.
Compare React, AngularJS, Vue.js and Ember
Compare Postgresql, MySQL and SQL Server
Compare Mongodb, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and Riak
Compare Storm, Hadoop and Spark
Compare Kafka, RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ
Compare Chef, Puppet, Ansible and the DevOps term itself
| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| React | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | +1 |
| JavaScript | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -1 |
| Full Stack | 4 | 5 | +1 | 4 | 0 |
| AWS | 5 | 4 | -1 | 9 | +4 |
| node.js | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 | +1 |
| Ruby | 7 | 7 | 0 | 11 | +4 |
| Rails | 8 | 8 | 0 | 5 | -3 |
| Machine Learning | 9 | 12 | +3 | 15 | +6 |
| DevOps | 10 | 9 | -1 | 8 | -2 |
| Java | 11 | 10 | -1 | 13 | +2 |
| Postgresql | 12 | 14 | +2 | 16 | +4 |
| iOS | 13 | 11 | -2 | 6 | -7 |
| passionate | 14 | 19 | +5 | 12 | -2 |
| Android | 15 | 15 | 0 | 10 | -5 |
| Docker | 16 | 13 | -3 | 21 | +5 |
| AngularJS | 17 | 16 | -1 | 14 | -3 |
| api | 18 | 24 | +6 | 19 | +1 |
| Redis | 19 | 23 | +4 | 18 | -1 |
| Front End | 20 | 18 | -2 | 23 | +3 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rust | 7 | 86 | 1 | 146 | +60 |
| S3 | 11 | 67 | 2 | 124 | +57 |
| Vue | 8 | 83 | 1 | 139 | +56 |
| jenkins | 11 | 64 | 3 | 115 | +51 |
| OpenStack | 7 | 87 | 2 | 135 | +48 |
| Kubernetes | 27 | 34 | 7 | 81 | +47 |
| Celery | 5 | 98 | 2 | 136 | +38 |
| AI | 26 | 35 | 9 | 70 | +35 |
| TensorFlow | 5 | 96 | 2 | 129 | +33 |
| Haskell | 8 | 81 | 4 | 107 | +26 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| App Engine | 1 | 151 | 7 | 78 | -73 |
| Storm | 1 | 160 | 5 | 95 | -65 |
| Vagrant | 3 | 119 | 9 | 73 | -46 |
| Gulp | 2 | 130 | 6 | 86 | -44 |
| CoffeeScript | 6 | 90 | 13 | 55 | -35 |
| Babel | 3 | 116 | 6 | 84 | -32 |
| ASP.NET MVC | 2 | 125 | 5 | 96 | -29 |
| Bash | 4 | 106 | 7 | 79 | -27 |
| HTML5 | 11 | 63 | 19 | 38 | -25 |
| Perl | 3 | 114 | 5 | 89 | -25 |