Programming Languages 2024

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5 pointsBrajeshwar4 comments

It says, "Welcome to IEEE Spectrum’s 11th annual rankings," but I don't see any rankings. Where are they? Have I overlooked a subtle link on that page?

There's an embedded interactive chart at the very top of text: have you blocked embeds from running?

Thank you. The site pulls in scripts and other stuff from more than a few off-site domains, which I normally block. I guess I missed one when trying to find the important piece.

The back end we use for article infographics on the Spectrum website is from a company called Flourish, so anything that looks like it's from them is actually editorial content.

We used to roll our own Javascript for the Top Programming Languages, which e.g. computed rankings on the fly, but it became unwieldy to maintain, and readers didn't take advantage of things like the ability to set their own weightings. So we shifted to pre-computing the rankings three years ago, and use a specialized tool for straight visualization.

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