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Developers may yearn for hot newer languages like Swift, Rust, and Scala, but their employers prefer stalwarts like Java. Yet Python, a trendy language that also is gaining momentum in businesses, bucks the trend altogether.
Based on a study of more than 3,000 coding tests specified by employers, technical recruiting platform HackerRank found industries as a whole are slow to adopt new languages. "Employers are still mostly looking for strong foundational skills in good old Java, Python, and C. Unsurprisingly, they're focused on infrastructure strength, security and scalability," HackerRank said.
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In HackerRank's methodology, employers administering coding tests were able to determine which languages were included in the tests, hence indicating which languages were important to them. Out of 3,000 tests, Java was enabled in 100 percent of them followed by Python (88 percent), C (70 percent), C++ (61 percent), Ruby (52 percent), C# (51 percent), JavaScript (49 percent), PHP (36 percent), Perl (25 percent), Swift (14 percent), Go (12 percent), Scala (8 percent), and Objective-C (7 percent). Companies that enabled all languages by default were eliminated from the sample set.
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