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Ranking the popularity of programming languages
- timrobinson 16y agoSome interesting outliers that confirm what I noticed generally - - I always wondered why there were so many Delphi questions on Stack Overflow, despite seeing very little Delphi activity elsewhere - F# developers don't ask many questions
- fogus 16y ago> very little Delphi activity elsewhere So that might explain why the Delphi questions have aggregated on SO.
- vb6 16y agoinfluential people in the delphi community promoted the use of stackoverflow partly to raise the profile of the language. Delphi is not dead and all that.
- agconway 16y agoThere was a parsing error with the "#" in the function for grabbing StackOverflow tag counts, so now F# is ranked much higher.
- davidw 16y agoInteresting. I'd like to add some options like that for http://langpop.com http://langpop.com . Some charts that let you look at jobs vs search engine hits or books vs projects, that kind of thing. I wish I could find a way to make a bit more money from it than the ads provide, though.
- ricaurte 16y agoThis is an interesting comparison, but it is most likely just a high overlap between their userbases - people that use github also use stackoverflow, and vice versa. This also doesn't include the number of people programming with a language in a corporate environment whose work is not public nor on external servers. Megan Squire posted in a comment this link to a collection of multiple source code repository websites datasets, although it is only open source projects: http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/list http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/list