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Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects

Posted by timothy on from the take-that-25-other-letters dept.

svonkie writes "C overwhelmingly proved to be the most popular programming language for thousands of new open-source projects in 2008, reports The Register (UK). According to license tracker Black Duck Software, which monitors 180,000 projects on nearly 4,000 sites, almost half — 47 per cent — of new projects last year used C. 17,000 new open-source projects were created in total. Next in popularity after C came Java, with 28 per cent. In scripting, JavaScript came out on top with 20 per cent, followed by Perl with 18 per cent. PHP attracted just 11 per cent, and Ruby six per cent. The numbers are a surprise, as open-source PHP has proved popular as a web-site development language, while Ruby's been a hot topic for many."

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  1. Hrmmm. by inode_buddha · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can C clearly now...

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    1. Re:Hrmmm. by ciaohound · · Score: 5, Funny

      ... the brain is gone.

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      Oh, yeah, it's not easy to pad these out to 120 characters.
  2. Re:c-derived languages? by iluvcapra · · Score: 4, Funny

    Open-source iPhone development?

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    Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
  3. Re:c-derived languages? by drpimp · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that's just being subjective!

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  4. Re:c-derived languages? by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 4, Funny

    Screw all the C variants. Where did Fortran place?

  5. C dominates new open source projects... by Lars512 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...as measured by lines of code

    (ducks)

  6. Re:c-derived languages? by Curien · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, C != C++ is undefined behavior.

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  7. Re:c-derived languages? by chill · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where it belonged, behind Lisp!

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  8. Re:c-derived languages? by keeboo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Replying my own - I would prefer to put it this way

    Is it cross-platform?

    Technically - Yes
    Practically - Yes
    Out-of-the-box - Not always.

    Huh?

    Well, while you're at it, why not making a more complete list:

    Technically - Yes
    Practically - Yes
    Out-of-the-box - Not always
    In principle - Yes
    Philosophically - Yes and No.
    Karmically - No
    Politically - Yes
    Hypothetically - In theory, yes

  9. 14,000+ new projects? by Pseudonym · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the bet that most of the 7,000 new open source projects were GNOME bindings for "Hello World"?

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