News Summary

• IEEE Spectrum released their annual post on The Top Programming Languages.
• The post argues that as AI coding “help” becomes more ubiquitous, you will care less and less about what language you use.
• No matter how you slice it, if you want to learn something, it looks like it should be Python.
• There are still pockets of Ada.
• Fortran and Arduino are about equally ranked, as far as jobs go (though we would argue that Arduino is really C++).
• So you tell us.
• Do you agree with the rankings?
• Do you think hackers would rank languages differently?
• Will AI reduce us to describing algorithms instead of writing them?
• We aren’t holding our breath, but who knows what tomorrow brings?
• Discuss in the comments.