Ruby declared TIOBE’s Programming Language of 2006
I must confess that I haven’t learned Ruby yet, but its popularity is growing everyday. According to TIOBE’s report for January 2007, Ruby is 10th most popular programming language.
"The TIOBE Programming Community index gives an indication of the popularity of programming
languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the world-wide availability of
skilled engineers, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo!
are used to calculate the ratings. Observe that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming
language or the language in which most lines of code have been written."
Java is still the most popular language, with C and C++ in the next positions. I found curious the fact that Visual Basic is the 4th most popular porgramming language, ahead of PHP and some other very popular languages like Perl, Javascript and Python.
Popularity: 22% [?]
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January 21st, 2007 at 10:56 am
Yey to Ruby
Now we’re only missing a decent IDE editor with
1) true autocompletion
2) refactoring tools
3) decent debugger
When those conditions are verified then Ruby will have no problem surpassing some more places.
January 21st, 2007 at 2:24 pm
err..
“The popular search engines Google, MSN, and Yahoo! are used to calculate the ratings”
not the best criteria to determine popularity, but still, interesting results.
July 26th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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