RedMonk analyst firm released its latest rankings which shows Apple’s programming language Swift drop from its applauded tie with Apple’s more established Objective-C language at 10th place to 11th place and Android’s Czech-based software company JetBrains programming language, Kotlin, from its 27th position to the 28th position.
These two are the fastest growing languages of all time and though the slight drop is apparent, it does not mean the two languages have begun to decline or have even peaked.
RedMonk co-founder Stephen O’Grady wrote in a blog post analyzing the findings that, “In general, we caution readers not to assign too much weight to small changes in the rankings; the differences between one spot or another, in general, tend to be slight”.
Using data from the question-and-answer site StackOverflow and the code-hosting and collaboration site GitHub, the firm assesses programmer’s interest in the languages and so the rankings do not directly reflect how the job market for those versed in the language are affected or how often the languages are used in commercial projects.
Although the programming language world is slowing down after a fastracked decade, Electric Cars are on the uprise and going mainstream. From India to China the petrol powered rickshaws, buses, cars, delivery lorries are getting electrically powered.
In 2015, 30-year-old single mum Sushila Devi struggling to make ends meet and could not even send her kids to school was able to acquire an electric rickshaw from a charity. She uses it to carry passengers in her hometown Bodh Gaya in the state of Bihar, North East India, and was able to make enough to send her two oldest children to school, she says.
The charity, Shamsul Akhtar of Karuna-Shechen, that provided the loan says the electric rickshaws could even create thousands of new jobs for struggling civilians like Ms. Devi and still be eco-friendly.
But will a lack of funds hold the market back?
China took an initiative and has already exempted electric vehicles from purchase taxes since 2014. Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport at Bloomberg New Energy Finance says, “we’re about to cross four million electric vehicles on the road globally sometime in August” and expects more growth in the 2020’s “when electric vehicles will cost the same as ones powered by internal combustion engines” he added.
