April 2022 Hacker News Hiring Trends
TypeScript has dethroned Python. For the first time in over six years, there is a new #1 programming language in the rankings with TypeScript jumping ahead of Python. Python has had a remarkable run, taking the top spot among programming languages since March, 2016. TypeScript steps up to the top spot in the same year it turns ten years old.
In the last two years alone, TypeScript has jumped from around ~12% of postings to nearly ~20% in April's postings. I am curious about what is driving this recent surge. Is it solely because JavaScript development is steadily migrating to TypeScript, or is it because new waves of developers and use cases are calling for it?
Compare Top 10 Programming Languages
| Tech | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Senior | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| React | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Back End | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Front End | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| TypeScript | 6 | 7 | +1 | 9 | +3 |
| Python | 7 | 6 | -1 | 6 | -1 |
| Postgresql | 8 | 10 | +2 | 8 | 0 |
| AWS | 9 | 8 | -1 | 7 | -2 |
| Full Stack | 10 | 9 | -1 | 10 | 0 |
| golang | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| node.js | 12 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| DevOps | 13 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Rails | 14 | 16 | +2 | 16 | +2 |
| Machine Learning | 15 | 14 | -1 | 14 | -1 |
| JavaScript | 16 | 17 | +1 | 18 | +2 |
| Kubernetes | 17 | 15 | -2 | 15 | -2 |
| Open Source | 18 | 21 | +3 | 21 | +3 |
| Java | 19 | 24 | +5 | 24 | +5 |
| Ruby | 20 | 18 | -2 | 17 | -3 |
| Tech | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | 6 | 91 | 0 | 217 | +126 |
| ClickHouse | 6 | 90 | 0 | 209 | +119 |
| dbt | 5 | 100 | 1 | 187 | +87 |
| statistics | 7 | 83 | 2 | 147 | +64 |
| VR | 7 | 84 | 3 | 128 | +44 |
| F# | 5 | 99 | 3 | 143 | +44 |
| Puppet | 6 | 88 | 3 | 129 | +41 |
| Robotics | 17 | 54 | 7 | 89 | +35 |
| RabbitMQ | 10 | 73 | 5 | 108 | +35 |
| ETL | 8 | 79 | 4 | 114 | +35 |