Dominant language by industry?

by vishaldpatel on 10/7/2010, 6:34 PM with 4 comments

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#.

  • by bendmorris on 10/8/2010, 4:12 PM

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

  • by HackyGeeky on 10/7/2010, 7:03 PM

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

  • by corysama on 10/8/2010, 8:09 PM

    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.