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Isn't the title a bit misleading? According to the chart, Java is the most popular language of the year (and the decade, if you take a look at https://sites.goo

by Sandman 14y ago

Isn't the title a bit misleading? According to the chart, Java is the most popular language of the year (and the decade, if you take a look at https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY...).

jasonlotito 14y ago
First line of the article: "C# had the highest growth in popularity this year (2.3 %), and Python the highest growth this decade (8%)". One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth.
- maratd 14y ago
  > One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth. I would think one of the key metrics in determining popularity would be popularity ...
  - jasonlotito 14y ago
    It is. I'd think that's fairly clear and obvious from the languages they were comparing.
- pohl 14y ago
  I find it hard to believe that some newer, smaller language communities did not have a higher growth rate.
  - jasonlotito 14y ago
    "One of," not "only."
- Drakim 14y ago
  Wouldn't a language that goes from 0 users to 1 user within this year easily win this sort of measurement?
  - jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
    Obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/1102/ http://xkcd.com/1102/
    - gtani 14y ago
      oblig. Zed shaw http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html
  - S4M 14y ago
    They must be taking only established languages. Otherwise Clojure, Scala or Go would probably beat them all in term of growth.
  - pcarbonn 14y ago
    Not really. The language of year is the one with the largest growth of "popularity share". C# has gone from 8.2% to 10.5% this year, while your presumed language would go from 0% to 0.0000001 % : not a big increase, really.
jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
Furthermore, the growing of C# seems to be the almost same as C++ in the worldwide trends (not only USA): http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=Java%20tutorial%2C%20python%20tutorial%2C%20tutorial%20c%2B%2B%2C%20c%23%20tutorial%2C%20php%20tutorial&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=Java%20tutor... And also there you can see that India is still the biggest searcher of programming tutorials in the world.

by Sandman 14y ago

jasonlotito 14y ago

First line of the article: "C# had the highest growth in popularity this year (2.3 %), and Python the highest growth this decade (8%)". One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth.

maratd 14y ago
> One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth. I would think one of the key metrics in determining popularity would be popularity ...
- jasonlotito 14y ago
  It is. I'd think that's fairly clear and obvious from the languages they were comparing.
pohl 14y ago
I find it hard to believe that some newer, smaller language communities did not have a higher growth rate.
- jasonlotito 14y ago
  "One of," not "only."
Drakim 14y ago
Wouldn't a language that goes from 0 users to 1 user within this year easily win this sort of measurement?
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago
  Obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/1102/ http://xkcd.com/1102/
  - gtani 14y ago
    oblig. Zed shaw http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html
- S4M 14y ago
  They must be taking only established languages. Otherwise Clojure, Scala or Go would probably beat them all in term of growth.
- pcarbonn 14y ago
  Not really. The language of year is the one with the largest growth of "popularity share". C# has gone from 8.2% to 10.5% this year, while your presumed language would go from 0% to 0.0000001 % : not a big increase, really.

jQueryIsAwesome 14y ago

Furthermore, the growing of C# seems to be the almost same as C++ in the worldwide trends (not only USA): http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=Java%20tutorial%2C%20python%20tutorial%2C%20tutorial%20c%2B%2B%2C%20c%23%20tutorial%2C%20php%20tutorial&date=today%2012-m&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=Java%20tutor... And also there you can see that India is still the biggest searcher of programming tutorials in the world.