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August Highlights

No major surprises at the top of the rankings this month, with React taking the top spot in the August "Ask HN: Who is Hiring" thread, its third straight win. Not content with its win though, React also got a big bump and jumped over the 20% mark, with nearly 23% of all postings mentioning it. Rounding out the top 5, Python and JavaScript continue to be entrenched in the second and third place spots with AWS and "Full Stack" swapping fourth and fifth place this month.

One update on methodology for August, the Go programming language is now properly tracked for the first time, accounting for both mentions of "golang" as well as capital G "Go". The result is pretty interesting with Go passing Java into the the fourth most popular programming language.

 

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Rankings and movers

Tech Rank Last Month Change Last Year Change
React 1 1 0 2 +1
Python 2 2 0 1 -1
JavaScript 3 3 0 3 0
AWS 4 5 +1 4 0
Full Stack 5 4 -1 6 +1
node.js 6 7 +1 10 +4
Machine Learning 7 6 -1 16 +9
Ruby 8 14 +6 5 -3
Postgresql 9 11 +2 15 +6
passionate 10 19 +9 17 +7
golang 11 10 -1 12 +1
Java 12 8 -4 9 -3
iOS 13 13 0 11 -2
DevOps 14 9 -5 8 -6
Rails 15 15 0 7 -8
Docker 16 12 -4 18 +2
Android 17 17 0 14 -3
AngularJS 18 16 -2 13 -5
Django 19 27 +8 23 +4
Open Source 20 26 +6 22 +2
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
Sidekiq 6 92 0 224 +132
TensorFlow 11 71 1 159 +88
Rust 9 80 1 158 +78
WebSockets 5 103 1 167 +64
Oracle 5 97 2 144 +47
Perl 5 100 2 142 +42
OpenStack 8 85 3 127 +42
Celery 5 104 2 145 +41
Vue 9 82 3 121 +39
haproxy 5 101 2 138 +37
Tech Mentions Rank Last Year Mentions Last Year Rank Change
CoffeeScript 0 205 10 71 -134
Meteor 0 203 6 91 -112
Objective-C 2 137 12 67 -70
Embedded Systems 1 167 5 97 -70
Ionic 1 160 5 93 -67
HTML5 4 110 19 49 -61
Flux 2 133 5 96 -37
Back End 7 88 16 54 -34
Chef 10 77 19 46 -31
Mesos 4 113 8 82 -31