Statistics Prove Erlang Sucks
Found this today from David Welton and thought we all could have a little fun finding out how badly our favorite language ranks.
My favorite is LISP.
What are the most popular programming languages these days?
I used tiobe.com and langpop.com to answer this question. Both sites provide programming language popularity statistics and rankings, and I was happy to see that Java, C, and C++ rank in the top three on both sites.
What I like about both of these sites is that they gather information across a wide range of search engines and websites in order to generate a popularity score. Neither site is focused on declaring the “best” programming language or the language in which the most lines of code have been written. They simply provide information that, as TIOBE states, “can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system.”
More information and graphs can be found here:
We have attempted to collect a variety of data about the relative popularity of programming languages, mostly out of curiousity. To some degree popularity does matter – however it is clearly not the only thing to take into account when choosing a programming language. Most experienced programmers should be able to learn the basics of a new language in a week, and be productive with it in a few more weeks, although it will likely take much longer to truly master it.
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