The fastest growing programming language

[Fromethius]

My teacher thinks it's Java It's even a test question on the midterm. A true and false question, to be exact. I feel bad about having to lie about it just to get the question right..

[Andrew G]

Your teacher needs to be put down.

[mendhak]

Like, omg, open source is so awesome. Microsoft is uh... evil! They're a large faceless corporation that won't release their source code, like hello! Linux? Linux and Java are going to take over the world.


Say that and you're guaranteed straight As and Bs.

[CodedFire]

I would say its c# since its the newest so its feature set still is growing, then again i no nothing about anything and tend to post answers to questions that i do not even understand!

[zaza]

When things are growing too fast on my bathtub, I just use AJAX.

[wossname]

Like, omg, open source is so awesome. Microsoft is uh... evil! They're a large faceless corporation that won't release their source code, like hello! Linux? Linux and Java are going to take over the world.


Say that and you're guaranteed straight As and Bs.

Bill says thanks for lending him your lawnmower.

[Fromethius]

What do you guys think the fastest growing programming language is?

[wossname]

The one that all the jerks in web design happen to be using that week.

On a related note: Chlamydia is the fastest growing STD in the world.

(Oh, and yes I realise that "web development" and "programming language" are somewhat of an amusing combination).

[penagate]

Ruby

[Merrion]

"fastest growing" is usually an inverse measure of current size - i.e. a bad thing

The fastest growing languages are things like Lua and Z++ because they have more than doubled their total user base in the last year (to nearly 3 developers each :-) )

[space_monkey]

Ruby

Haven't you heard?

Its funny i was reading this post and this article.

[TheBigB]

C#

It's fast not to difficult to learn for VB programmers and you can do nearly everything with it.

I want to learn, but don't have the time for it nor do I have the idea where to start...

[MartinLiss]

C#

It's fast not to difficult to learn for VB programmers and you can do nearly everything with it.

I want to learn, but don't have the time for it nor do I have the idea where to start...

Buy Brad's book

[penagate]

Haven't you heard?

Its funny i was reading this post and this article.

Haha, yes. I often feel that way.

[TheBigB]

Buy Brad's book

Thanks,
I might actually do that

[Tom Sawyer]

DNA is the fastest growing programming language.

This is especially true for the DNA of tall people.

[space_monkey]

DNA is the fastest growing programming language.

This is especially true for the DNA of tall people.

Hey at 6'6'' I'm ahead of the game for once.

[Foxer]

LOL Code

[BillGeek]

Programming languages can't grow, they can only get upgraded.

[BodwadUK]

Damn I am 5ft 3 and well behind

[Arrow_Raider]

Don't ever listen to anything a programming class teacher tells you.
They believe the following:
1) Comments should be placed for every single line of code explaining what the line of code does.
2) Doubles or 64-bit floating point numbers should always be used for everything.
3) Escaping a character with \ is bad. You should use an appropriate constant instead. (Like "rawr\n" is bad, instead they want: "rawr" << endl.)
4) Using an IDE is cheating.
5) Using tabs instead of spaces is blasphemy.
6) Java is teh cool language!

Now here is what I believe:
1) Comments should only explain what a line of code does when it is strange or uncommon. Comments should explain why you did something, not just what that something does.
2) 64-bit numbers should be avoided whenever you don't need them. They are slower (especially in a 32-bit environment) and take up more memory. That isn't to say you don't want to use them, just that they should be used when you need them.
3) The less strings I need to concat or send to something with <<, the better.
4) The use of an IDE allows you to be more productive and efficient, and it's what programmers use in the real world.
5) A tab is a single key stroke. You need multiple spaces to create a sufficient enough indentation.
6) Java is teh suck.

[timeshifter]

C#

It's fast not to difficult to learn for VB programmers and you can do nearly everything with it.

I want to learn, but don't have the time for it nor do I have the idea where to start...

The only things you can't do in C# that you can do in VB are those things that are considered questionable practice. The first thing I can think of is VB's With command... nice, sure, but perhaps not good coding practice, although I can admit to having used it a few times... I'm not sure about the Using command (not C#'s Imports equivalent, but VB's Using). I'm aware that it does automatic garbage collection at the end, but again, it's questionable. Is that really a good thing? Or should the GC be done in the code itself, not assumed as part of another command?

On the whole, in my experience, C# is a faster language, and is much more capable. Using some unsafe code that Wossy so kindly donated, along with his left kidney (he just doesn't know it yet), I was able to replicate a VB app with greatly enhanced functionality and the overall speed was still 80% faster.

[nemaroller]

Simply mark 'True' for Java as fastest growing programming language, but then scribble next to it (except every other programming language that has appeared since 1992).

[BillGeek]

The only things you can't do in C# that you can do in VB are those things that are considered questionable practice. The first thing I can think of is VB's With command... nice, sure, but perhaps not good coding practice, although I can admit to having used it a few times... I'm not sure about the Using command (not C#'s Imports equivalent, but VB's Using). I'm aware that it does automatic garbage collection at the end, but again, it's questionable. Is that really a good thing? Or should the GC be done in the code itself, not assumed as part of another command?

In my experience using the With statement greatly improves code readability and allows for easier code management. Aside from that, I don't see any reason to use it or not.

And garbage collection? The first thing I tell myself is: Nothing in VB works the way it's supposed to. (And I could name a few examples) I usually destroy ALL objects after the end of a routine, as I see it as safe.

[penagate]

Using some unsafe code that Wossy so kindly donated, along with his left kidney (he just doesn't know it yet), I was able to replicate a VB app with greatly enhanced functionality and the overall speed was still 80% faster.

'Unsafe' makes me laugh. It hardly is.

[BodwadUK]

lol the 'with' command makes code so much easier to read

Again I always try to set my objects to nothing at the end of a sub/function. It just comes naturally now

[mendhak]

I often press Ctrl+Spacebar when typing sente