React racks up third straight win;
No major surprises at the top of the rankings this month, with React taking the top spot in the August "Ask HN: Who is Hiring" thread, its third straight win. Not content with its win though, React also got a big bump and jumped over the 20% mark, with nearly 23% of all postings mentioning it. Rounding out the top 5, Python and JavaScript continue to be entrenched in the second and third place spots with AWS and "Full Stack" swapping fourth and fifth place this month.
One update on methodology for August, the Go programming language is now properly tracked for the first time, accounting for both mentions of "golang" as well as capital G "Go". The result is pretty interesting with Go passing Java into the the fourth most popular programming language.
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| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | +1 |
| Python | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| JavaScript | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| AWS | 4 | 5 | +1 | 4 | 0 |
| Full Stack | 5 | 4 | -1 | 6 | +1 |
| node.js | 6 | 7 | +1 | 10 | +4 |
| Machine Learning | 7 | 6 | -1 | 16 | +9 |
| Ruby | 8 | 14 | +6 | 5 | -3 |
| Postgresql | 9 | 11 | +2 | 15 | +6 |
| passionate | 10 | 19 | +9 | 17 | +7 |
| golang | 11 | 10 | -1 | 12 | +1 |
| Java | 12 | 8 | -4 | 9 | -3 |
| iOS | 13 | 13 | 0 | 11 | -2 |
| DevOps | 14 | 9 | -5 | 8 | -6 |
| Rails | 15 | 15 | 0 | 7 | -8 |
| Docker | 16 | 12 | -4 | 18 | +2 |
| Android | 17 | 17 | 0 | 14 | -3 |
| AngularJS | 18 | 16 | -2 | 13 | -5 |
| Django | 19 | 27 | +8 | 23 | +4 |
| Open Source | 20 | 26 | +6 | 22 | +2 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sidekiq | 6 | 92 | 0 | 224 | +132 |
| TensorFlow | 11 | 71 | 1 | 159 | +88 |
| Rust | 9 | 80 | 1 | 158 | +78 |
| WebSockets | 5 | 103 | 1 | 167 | +64 |
| Oracle | 5 | 97 | 2 | 144 | +47 |
| Perl | 5 | 100 | 2 | 142 | +42 |
| OpenStack | 8 | 85 | 3 | 127 | +42 |
| Celery | 5 | 104 | 2 | 145 | +41 |
| Vue | 9 | 82 | 3 | 121 | +39 |
| haproxy | 5 | 101 | 2 | 138 | +37 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoffeeScript | 0 | 205 | 10 | 71 | -134 |
| Meteor | 0 | 203 | 6 | 91 | -112 |
| Objective-C | 2 | 137 | 12 | 67 | -70 |
| Embedded Systems | 1 | 167 | 5 | 97 | -70 |
| Ionic | 1 | 160 | 5 | 93 | -67 |
| HTML5 | 4 | 110 | 19 | 49 | -61 |
| Flux | 2 | 133 | 5 | 96 | -37 |
| Back End | 7 | 88 | 16 | 54 | -34 |
| Chef | 10 | 77 | 19 | 46 | -31 |
| Mesos | 4 | 113 | 8 | 82 | -31 |