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Computer Language Trends

Category: Programming   Tags: , ,

You probably know about the Tiobe software index.

But does website volume really tell how popular a language is? I bring you charts of languages by job listings.

functional

Here are the functional languges. As you can see here, F# is starting to grow. But Erlang still surpasses all of them by far.

industrial

These are the so called heavy weight, industrial languages. Java is sitting at the top while C# is closing in. C++ remains steady. We see here that Cobol is still surviving all these years.

middle

And here are the interpreted languages. Interestingly, Javascript is number 1 while Perl is close behind.

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Posted Monday, June 8th, 2009 at 2:03 am. Filed under Programming. You can follow comments here through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Comments  »

  1. emmett says:
    08.06.09 at 10:27

    Interesting stuff.. one thing that jumped out at me is the popularity of JavaScript, even though you have it categorized under “moderately used languages”. In fact, its popularity almost exactly matches C#:

    http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=javascript%2C+c%23&l=

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  2. ryan says:
    08.06.09 at 15:17

    java 4 life

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