Here are programming language trends from very different sources.
1. According to TIOBE Programming Community Index, here are the top 10 programming languages.
Position Sep 2009 |
Position Sep 2008 |
Delta in Position | Programming Language | Ratings Sep 2009 |
Delta Sep 2008 |
Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Java | 19.383% | -1.33% | A | |
2 | 2 | C | 16.861% | +1.48% | A | |
3 | 5 | PHP | 10.156% | +0.91% | A | |
4 | 3 | C++ | 9.988% | -0.73% | A | |
5 | 4 | (Visual) Basic | 9.196% | -1.29% | A | |
6 | 7 | Perl | 4.528% | -0.31% | A | |
7 | 8 | C# | 4.186% | -0.15% | A | |
8 | 6 | Python | 3.930% | -1.08% | A | |
9 | 9 | JavaScript | 2.995% | -0.14% | A | |
10 | 11 | Ruby | 2.377% | -0.38% | A |
TIOBE Programming Community index page, shows the trends of increasing/decreasing popularity as well and contains lots of other useful information. This changes every month so please make sure to check the latest.
2. This programming language usage index shows information about languages used in open source projects. It has a slightly different story to tell. Obviously VB is not the most popular for open source software.
3. The SkillMarket provides a tech hiring patterns.
4. Google trends, which shows search trends, only shows 5 different terms at a time. I broke the list into compiled languages (C, C++, Java, C#) and scripting languages (perl, python, php, ruby, javascript).
5. In addition you can check indeed.com to check the job trends of the top languages. Here are both absolute and relative trends for Aug 2009
Absolute.
Relative Trends.
Probably tracking the searches at major book sellers, publishers may provide more useful information as well.
Programming Language | Ratings Sep 2009 |
Delta Sep 2008 |
Status | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Java | 19.383% | -1.33% | A | |
2 | 2 | C | 16.861% | +1.48% | A | |
3 | 5 | PHP | 10.156% | +0.91% | A | |
4 | 3 | C++ | 9.988% | -0.73% | A | |
5 | 4 | (Visual) Basic | 9.196% | -1.29% | A | |
6 | 7 | Perl | 4.528% | -0.31% | A | |
7 | 8 | C# | 4.186% | -0.15% | A | |
8 | 6 | Python | 3.930% | -1.08% | A | |
9 | 9 | JavaScript | 2.995% | -0.14% | A | |
10 | 11 | Ruby |
2 thoughts on “Programming Language Trends”
Just updated the post – Sep 09, 2009
Comments are closed.