Programming Language Popularity

[Brian Adkins]

I just published some statistics on programming language popularity as measured by Google search results for the phrases:

written in <lang>

implemented in <lang>

It's the 5th post in a series, so you can compare over time as well. I think it may be time to knock Caml and Io off the list :)

http://lojic.com/blog/2012/08/04/programming-language-popularity-%E2%80%93-part-five/

Brian

[Edward G. Savage]

Interesting findings. That ranking doesn't exactly correlate with the job market though.

    --Ed

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[Brandon Van Every]

This seems to be a metric of the idiom "implemented / written in <L>".
I'm thinking that within broad clumps of popularity, the scores would
change if one searched for different / more idioms.

Cheers,
Brandon Van Every

[Phillip Rhodes (Fogbeam Labs)]

No Groovy? You just lost all credibility with me! :-)


Phil

[Brian Adkins]

On Sunday, August 5, 2012 12:40:54 PM UTC-4, Fogbeam Phil wrote:

No Groovy?  You just lost all credibility with me!  :-)


Phil

Interesting - I didn't expect Groovy to be so high. I've partially updated the blog post. Too much trouble to update the table, but I recorded the relevant number to allow computing a delta next time. Haskell still has a way to go to be in the top section above FORTRAN, but that sure would make my day :)

In Oct '09, Haskell was 17% of FORTRAN, yesterday it was 62%. More relevant, in Apr '09, Haskell was 2.7% of Java, yesterday it was 8.1%. That's a pretty significant shift, and I expect that trend to continue for Haskell and a few other functional languages as Moore's law continues to collapse, cores continue to multiply and programmers who have found Python, Ruby, etc. want more power plus more speed.

Brian