Every time I see an updated version of the TIOBE index it strikes me differently. Sometimes I'm surprised to see some programming languages in the TOP 20 that I didn't even know existed (happens all the time,) sometimes it's the realization of the languages on the rise like Ruby and Lua in recent years.
Take a look at this month's list.
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1
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Java
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20.176%
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2
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C
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15.292%
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3
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(Visual) Basic
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10.782%
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4
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PHP
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10.637%
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5
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C++
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10.484%
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6
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Perl
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5.869%
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7
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Python
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4.613%
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8
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C#
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3.963%
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9
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Ruby
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2.851%
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10
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Delphi
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2.641%
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11
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JavaScript
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2.411%
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12
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D
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1.314%
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13
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SAS
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0.738%
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14
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PL/SQL
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0.625%
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15
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Pascal
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0.498%
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16
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Lisp/Scheme
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0.449%
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17
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Ada
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0.431%
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18
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COBOL
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0.411%
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19
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Lua
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0.393%
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20
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FoxPro/xBase
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0.385%
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This month, although not new, what hit me was the state of the .Net languages. I'm
definitely a C# guy. You'd have to tempt me with serious money to get
me doing VB.Net again (IronRuby, on the other hand, would be a different
story ;)
Although I'm not exactly surprised to see the .Net languages being
dwarfed by other heavy hitters like Java and C, which enjoy a little
more platform-independence, it's always an humbling effect seeing VB
that far ahead of C#.
The interesting thing with this index is
how it is built.
It serves as a good thermometer to what kind of support you can expect
to find on the Internet for that language. That's why it surprises me
in relation to Visual Basic in particular.
I understand the index lumps together VB.NET, VB6, plain Basic, etc, but
the non-Net versions of VB have been considered legacy for so long
now that I tend to think VB.NET is indeed what is pushing Visual Basic
to the top.
Maybe it's just because "Visual Basic" or "VB" as much easier search
terms than "C#", "CSharp", "C-sharp", etc.
I've been reading about .Net online for almost 8 years now and C#
has always seemed more prevalent than VB.NET in article, samples,
documentation, and Open Source projects.
What about you? Anything interesting in this list? Is VB really
the bomb?
Posted
05-18-2008 10:32 PM
by
sergiopereira