By dev.stonez
via tiobe.com
Published: Feb 09 2012 / 19:28
It might be a coincidence but while classic (Visual) Basic is slowly going off radar, VB.NET is still gaining in popularity each month. VB.NET now enters the top 20. Other interesting moves this month: Groovy is approaching the top 20 by climbing another 8 places, CFML (ColdFusion) is back in the top 50, whereas Clojure entered the top 100 at position 77.
The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.
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henk replied ago:
Although it is slowly declining, there's except for C still not anything that comes even close to Java. Languages that supposedly would completely take over the world (e.g. Ruby) have already strongly declined them selves again.
Scala for instance has been touted for nearly a decade now as -the- Java killer, but at the moment it's not even in sight as far as Tiobe is concerned.
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