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Android Rises to the Top

We have a new champ! It was close, with only 1 or 2 mentions separating the top 4 but Android is #1, highlighting mobile app development's ascension. Throughout the history of these rankings it's consistently been a battle between the multi-use langauages JavaScript and Python for the top spot. Now, with Android #1 and iOS #3, mobile is joining the battle too.

In other big news and speaking of climbs to the top, React completed one too, surpassing Angular in the front-end javascript framework cateogory. Based on its trajectory, it was easy to see this coming, but we can now mark it down. Late 2015 saw React as the most popular front-end framework.

Programming Languages

Compare JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Java
Compare C++, Scala, Clojure and Go

Server-side Frameworks

Compare Rails, node.js, PHP and Django

Rails held on for another victory, its second in a row over Node.js.

JavaScript Frameworks

Compare React, AngularJS, Backbone and Ember

As mentioned in the highlights, React is #1 and Angular has to settle for #2 now. Backbone and Ember maintain there flat pace, not much growth or decline for either.

SQL Databases

Compare Postgresql, MySQL and SQL Server

Postgresql again is the top choice. After surpassing MySQL earlier this year it has continued to beat it consistently.

NoSQL Databases

Compare Mongodb, Elasticsearch, Cassandra and Riak

Elasticsearch regains the top spot after falling back behind Mongodb the paste couple months.

Big Data

Compare Storm, Hadoop and Spark

Messaging

Compare Kafka, RabbitMQ and ActiveMQ

DevOps Tools

Compare Chef, Puppet, Ansible and the DevOps term itself

Tech Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
Android 1 4 +3 7 +6
Python 2 1 -1 2 0
iOS 3 3 0 6 +3
JavaScript 4 2 -2 1 -3
Rails 5 5 0 3 -2
Java 6 12 +6 10 +4
AWS 7 6 -1 8 +1
React 8 10 +2 57 +49
Full Stack 9 11 +2 18 +9
node.js 10 9 -1 11 +1
AngularJS 11 7 -4 5 -6
Ruby 12 8 -4 4 -8
Front End 13 23 +10 14 +1
DevOps 14 13 -1 24 +10
passionate 15 17 +2 13 -2
Machine Learning 16 24 +8 17 +1
Postgresql 17 14 -3 9 -8
api 18 15 -3 22 +4
Scala 19 28 +9 34 +15
Docker 20 19 -1 38 +18
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Microservices 14 50 2 107 +57
Asp 6 75 1 132 +57
React 75 8 9 57 +49
Meteor 5 84 1 128 +44
Spark 25 36 5 69 +33
golang 14 52 3 85 +33
AI 10 66 2 99 +33
Kafka 20 42 4 75 +33
Distributed Systems 28 32 7 61 +29
Haskell 10 63 3 92 +29
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Vagrant 2 120 5 70 -50
jQuery 11 61 22 25 -36
Sass 6 79 13 44 -35
Data Mining 3 97 6 67 -30
Selenium 3 102 5 73 -29
CSS 25 37 39 12 -25
EC2 5 82 8 58 -24
statistics 6 76 10 53 -23
CoffeeScript 12 57 17 35 -22
HTML5 7 74 10 55 -19