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C# vs Ruby

17 points by nickb 18y ago

jwilliams 18y ago
Interesting, but you've got to factor in the fact that C# is a much more specific search term than Ruby... C# searches are probably mostly about C#. The Ruby result would also contain all the searches involving "Ruby" that aren't related to the language at all.
- kxt 18y ago
  The C# 9-5 theory also supported by the long term view, showing yearly drops between mid-December till January. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1 http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&g...
  - shawndrost 18y ago
    Interesting, from that page you can see that ruby has many more news stories despite its lower search volume. Also interesting: on the usa-only graphy, ruby and c# have had about the same search traffic since 1996. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23,+ruby&date=all&geo=usa&ctab=0&sort=1&sa=N http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23,+ruby&date=all&g...
    - acangiano 18y ago
      You mean "since 2004".
- catch23 18y ago
  Yup.... C# vs Emerald yields the exact same graph. Is Emerald a new language we haven't heard about it? http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+emerald&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=1 http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+emerald&ctab=0&#3...
ntoshev 18y ago
I hadn't noticed that Google has started to tokenize properly things like C, C++, C#. Probably because I don't use them recently.
greyman 18y ago
> C# is used by people that develop only on their 9-5, Mon-Fri job. Heh, my case exactly. ;-)
cosmo7 18y ago
Obviously the C# guys are on their yachts or flying their planes at the weekend. The Ruby people would have web access from their security guard jobs.
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nuclear_eclipse 18y ago
The same trend seems to hold for other "corporate" languages, such as PHP, .Net, and C++: http://www.google.com/trends?q=.net%2C+php%2C+python%2C+c%2B%2B%2C+ruby&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=1 http://www.google.com/trends?q=.net%2C+php%2C+python%2C+c%2B...
chwolfe 18y ago
As someone who codes in C# during the week, I would much rather play around with other languages on the weekend to gain new insight and motivation. If Ruby was a popular 9-5 language, I would expect to see a similar drop over the weekend.

17 points by nickb 18y ago

Interesting, but you've got to factor in the fact that C# is a much more specific search term than Ruby... C# searches are probably mostly about C#. The Ruby result would also contain all the searches involving "Ruby" that aren't related to the language at all.

kxt 18y ago
The C# 9-5 theory also supported by the long term view, showing yearly drops between mid-December till January. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1 http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&g...
- shawndrost 18y ago
  Interesting, from that page you can see that ruby has many more news stories despite its lower search volume. Also interesting: on the usa-only graphy, ruby and c# have had about the same search traffic since 1996. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23,+ruby&date=all&geo=usa&ctab=0&sort=1&sa=N http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23,+ruby&date=all&g...
  - acangiano 18y ago
    You mean "since 2004".
catch23 18y ago
Yup.... C# vs Emerald yields the exact same graph. Is Emerald a new language we haven't heard about it? http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+emerald&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=1 http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+emerald&ctab=0&#3...

ntoshev 18y ago

I hadn't noticed that Google has started to tokenize properly things like C, C++, C#. Probably because I don't use them recently.

greyman 18y ago

> C# is used by people that develop only on their 9-5, Mon-Fri job. Heh, my case exactly. ;-)

cosmo7 18y ago

Obviously the C# guys are on their yachts or flying their planes at the weekend. The Ruby people would have web access from their security guard jobs.

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nuclear_eclipse 18y ago

The same trend seems to hold for other "corporate" languages, such as PHP, .Net, and C++: http://www.google.com/trends?q=.net%2C+php%2C+python%2C+c%2B%2B%2C+ruby&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=1 http://www.google.com/trends?q=.net%2C+php%2C+python%2C+c%2B...

chwolfe 18y ago

As someone who codes in C# during the week, I would much rather play around with other languages on the weekend to gain new insight and motivation. If Ruby was a popular 9-5 language, I would expect to see a similar drop over the weekend.