Security: What Are The Most Secure Programming Languages (State of Open Source Security Report)

A report on "security of programming languages" used in open source.

Quoting:
"Behind every developer is a beloved programming language. In heated debates over which language is the best, the security card will come into play in support of one language or discredit another.
We decided to address this debate and put it to the test by researching WhiteSource’s comprehensive database. We focused on open source security vulnerabilities in C, Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, and C++, to find out which programming languages are most secure, which vulnerability types (CWEs) are most common in each language, and why."

What Are The Most Secure Programming Languages

To download the report: https://resources.whitesourcesoftware.com/blog-whitesource/is-one-language-more-secure

Quoting:

"Language vulnerabilities

Let’s look at the list from the report and break it down.
Total reported open source vulnerabilities per language:

1. C (46.9%)
2. PHP (16.7%)
3. Java (11.4%)
4. JavaScript (10.2%)
5. Python (5.45%)
6. C++ (5.23%)
7. Ruby (4.25%)

WhiteSource pulled their info from their database which includes multiple sources including “the National Vulnerability Database, security advisories, GitHub issue trackers, and popular open source project issue trackers”."

Quote Source: https://jaxenter.com/security-vulnerabilities-languages-157038.html

SW Construction: Which programming languages you should learn now...

... in order to improve your chances/value in the market. An interesting list of languages to learn additionally if you're from the Java, C/C++, Ruby, etc. world and/or if you're a newbie:

• Which programming languages you should learn now | InfoWorld

And the top 50 (in the not much scientific TIOBE index):

• https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

PS: Cross-check with a previously provided list here around:

• http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2017/12/sw-construction-languages-to-know-in.html

SW Construction: Rust, the new safe, performant language (from Mozilla)?

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3218074/application-development/what-is-rust-safe-fast-and-easy-software-development.html

Quoting:
"Rust is meant to be fast, safe, and reasonably easy to program in. It’s also intended to be used widely, and not simply end up as a curiosity or an also-ran in the language sweepstakes. Good reasons abound for creating a language where safety sits on equal footing with speed and development power. After all, there’s a tremendous amount of software—some of it driving critical infrastructure—built with languages where safety wasn’t the first concern."
(...)
"The Rust team is conscious of many of these issues, and it has plans on the 2017 Rust roadmap to improve them. For example, to make Rust easier to work with C and C++, the Rust team is investigating whether to expand projects like bindgen, which automatically generates Rust bindings to C code."

TOOL: Free Pascal (compliler) and Lazarus (IDE)

Free Pascal is still being used actively to teach programming skills to youngsters, I have recently learned. It is free as the name implies and includes a text-based IDE (for those who remember what that was:  Borland Turbo Pascal).

For download and documentation see:

• Free Pascal documentation index: https://www.freepascal.org/docs.var
• If interested also make sure to read about Lazarus (a free GUI-based IDE): http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation
• ... and Virtual Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Pascal

Turbo Pascal is nowadays freely downloadable in the Embarcadero site (which bought Borland) and still releases Delphi (an evolution of the Turbo Pascal IDE and the Object Pascal language for Graphical User Interfaces:

• http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20792  
• "Freeware release: Borland released several versions of Turbo Pascal as freeware after they became "antique software" (abandonware) in 2002. The newest released international version was TP 5.5, while the newer French TP 7.01 was also released as freeware.The downloads are still available on the successor website of Embarcadero Technologies." (Source: Wikipedia)

SW Construction: Languages to know in 2018...

... based on job offers of a specific site in 2017:

• http://www.eweek.com/development/coding-languages-every-developer-should-learn-in-2018

And the list includes:

1. Java

2. Python

3. JavaScript

4. C++

5. C#

6. PHP

7. Perl

Other: Swift (iOS), R (big data analysis), Rust

Other technologies: SQL, .NET framework, Node.js (running JavaScript on the server side), MEAN stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js)

Quoting:
"One of the world’s largest coding bootcamps, Coding Dojo, has released an objective analysis of the most in-demand programing languages of 2018.

Coding Dojo came to its findings by analyzing the hundreds of thousands of job postings that contained the name of a programming language on job search engine Indeed.com. It found that Java is the most in-demand followed by Python and JavaScript.

“Software development is a dynamic field,” (...)"

The 2017 top programming languages

According to IEEE (also see the TIOBE index):
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2017-top-programming-languages

The FUN Dept.: Which programming languages have the happiest (and angriest) commenters?

Oh yeah! The eternal war between sexes and the programming languages discussion:
Which programming languages have the happiest (and angriest) commenters?

PS: Everyone knows Fortran is the best (widely used) programming language, right?

Coding: In C#?

Coding in C#? I've found a good overview (from a Microsoft person, so careful with The bias) that looks like a good summary of where this programming language is going including parallel projects Rosylin, Xamarin, Unity and more:


https://realm.io/news/goto-mads-torgersen-why-take-another-look-at-c-sharp/

RESOURCE: TIOBE Index or "the manhood index for programmers" (if they are men)

The Short Story

The latest version of this monthly rank can be found here (COBOL still appears on the second part of the ranking, and VB is pretty much up in the ranking): http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=index

The rationale behind the calculations (or the index definition) is described here ("unfortunately" porn sites are excluded - just kidding).

The Long Story

Let me quickly share the TIOBE Index, aka as "the manhood index for programmers" (if they are men) - translated to PT this would translate to "Índice de Macheza do Pugramador" (sic). And this is why: A man should only be considered a man if it is programming on its current position using one of the top 3 languages in this index. If not, you can say to you (man) colleague: "Ah, you're really a chicken" (or something alike, preferably equally insulting).

Talking more seriously, you can look at this index in several ways:
- The current month rank: Shows what languages are more popular (or at least what have been more researched upon)
- The recent years trend (since June 2001)

You can look at this index in several ways: I want to position myself in a "popular" language (which translates to "top ranking language" in this ranking) over the last few years (define the number of years for your particular case); this could be a wise career decision (medium-long term).

But don't forget to look it the other way (the short term): Older languages (like COBOL or Delphi / Object Pascal) are not so popular but because resources are scarce they will be highly paid and could be in high demand: For instance look for job positions of Delphi Programmers in the UK to sort it out (is 320 GBP a day good enough for you?).