Anirudh Jayaraman

R — The Big Mover in IEEE Spectrum’s 2015 Rankings for Top 10 Programming Languages

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The column on the left is the 2015 ranking; the column on the right is the 2014 ranking for comparison:

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source: The 2015 Top Ten Programming Languages

The thing to note is that the top 5 languages haven’t budged from their positions. R has pushed past PHP, JavaScirpt and Ruby, which have maintained their relative positions.  So this year’s rankings have been about R moving forward.

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