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The biggest thing that draws this into question for me is the fact that Visual Basic and Javascript supposedly dropped by the similar amounts.... ?? Among a do
by 51Cards 16y ago
The biggest thing that draws this into question for me is the fact that Visual Basic and Javascript supposedly dropped by the similar amounts.... ??
Among a dozen other languages, I still frequently develop in VB as I have a huge code library for it (crawling back into the 90's) and it still works well as a general Swiss Army knife tool. I have seen the community plummet though and of course it's rapidly fading in it's significance.
Javascript however is on a meteoric rise development wise. It seems it is being adapted to anything possible and I see regular talk of it being used server side now too.
Yet supposedly they both dropped similar amounts? I'm surprised VB didn't drop more, and Javascript "dropped" at all.
- Zpirate 16y agoMaybe interfacing to javascript libraries has replaced actual new javascript development and people search for, for instance, "jquery" instead of javascript.
- 51Cards 16y agoThat could very well be the case. Perhaps its position was artificially high as well. The transition from static to dynamic web pages forced a glut of developers to learn it, and hence a lot of searches for answers. Maybe this is just a sign than we're all getting more seasoned in the language on average.
- moomba 16y agoThat seems to be the main problems with these metrics. They aren't looking at the popular libraries that make use of the language. If I search "Android OpenGL development" it should count as a query directed at Java. This survey doesn't seem to do that though.