Dominant language by industry?

7 points by vishaldpatel 15y ago ↗ HN

Hey guys, What is the most popular language being used in your industry / sub-industry? Who uses them and why? Please forgive me for my ignorance, but:

From what I know: Python and R are very popular as of late in the world of quantitative Finance.

Python is also quite popular in astro-physics and my friends tell me that it is replacing Matlab.

Okay, your turn :)

Edit: Looks like C++ is very popular in the quantitative analytics space as well - mostly due to speed and low latency. A ton of jobs ask for C++ and quite a few like C#.

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HackyGeeky 15y ago ↗

Go python ! I heard python is heavily used in Film industry, can someone confirm that. I heard that in a google tech talk.

gte910h 15y ago ↗

According to a conversation with Noah Gift of http://www.amazon.com/Python-Unix-Linux-System-Administratio... and python atlanta, it seems that's so.

bendmorris 15y ago ↗

Python is very popular and growing within Biology - although molecular biology has a sizeable Ruby and Perl following as well.

corysama 15y ago ↗

Boxed-product computer games (Xbox, PS3, Wii, PC): C++ with some C hold-outs. Python and C# are common in the pipeline and tools, but not common in the shipped product.