Programming languages over the past 10 years

Over the past 10 years, there have been many changes Ln SURJUDPPLnJ ODnJXDJHV, LnflXHnFHG Ey HYHnWV Ln the software development ecosystem. We started 10 years back with the Dot Com boom and the bubble then burst; we went through the ‘Web 2.0’ revolution, and are currently being swept along by the ‘Mobile Momentum’ and ‘Big Data’ explosion.

Java ascended the throne of programming languages with the Dot Com boom and still continues WR UXOH D VLJnLfiFDnW SDUW RI WhH NLnJGRP. ThH WHE 2.0 revolution heralded the age of scripting languages. JavaScript became the de-facto client-side Web programming language. Python, Perl, PHP and Ruby came of age as mainstream development languages in the course of the Web 2.0 revolution. ‘Mobile Momentum’ gave us Objective-C and enshrined Java in Android. The Big Data explosion moved the spotlight from ‘Code’ to ‘Data’ and it became cool and nerdy for computer science graduates to re-invent