Today, 8 years after it was created, the popularity of Node.js is blooming. It’s gone through the Java-community critique, grown a number of big corp early adopters and even made it into space. In this post, I’d like to share two things about this phenomenon; firstly, just how substantial the Node.js growth we’re seeing nowadays is and secondly, how new and noteworthy companies use it to support their business.Node.js and JavaScriptA part of Node’s fame comes from the outburst of JavaScript popularity. The recent Stack Overflow (a Q&A portal for programmers) survey shows that JavaScript is the most popular programming language according to 64,000 programmers. JavaScript has got to the top mainly because it’s a native technology for the web and the web is eating the world right now. But JavaScript has also become a leading technology elsewhere. Surprisingly, JavaScript tops not only web development, it has also conquered Desktop, Devops, and even Data Engineering too. These charts speak for themselves:Anyway, the conclusion is that knowing JavaScript, there’s apparently a great chance you will use it in different areas of software development. Moreover, I think that having the same programming language across different projects in an organization is also one way to increase developer productivity.Let’s come back to data: The Stack Overflow survey confirms what GitHub statistics have already shown; JavaScript beats Java, Python or PHP when it comes to number of actively developed projects on the GitHub platform. It’s worth noting that this is not a yesterday’s fad, this is a trend that has kept showing up for a couple of years already.Finally, RedMonk, a software consultancy group, has been analyzing software trends since 2010. Last...Read More
