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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. Re:no C++ by RedWizzard · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm surprised C++ didn't make the list.

    It didn't make the list because apparently the authors think that C, C++, and C# are all the same language.

  2. Re:c-derived languages? by FishWithAHammer · · Score: 5, Informative

    c# is windows specific

    Wrong.

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    "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
  3. Re:c-derived languages? by shaitand · · Score: 5, Informative

    'As for me, I don't discount any solution just because of who comes up with it, so I'm fine with .NET. To each his own.'

    *shrugs* We must agree to differ then. I prefer to learn from history. Historically speaking, there haven't been any useful Microsoft technologies that were or are completely interoperable, stable, relatively bugfree, and secure. Seeing as how they have released lots of technologies and solutions over the years they have had plenty of opportunities and have on numerous occasions even lied about the aforementioned things.

    Maybe .Net is/was/will be the exception. If so I'm not concerned, there are other solutions that DO meet the above criteria and work well. All in all, my track record of avoiding Microsoft solutions when something else will do will then have been the right choice about 99 out of hundred times and saved me thousands of dollars in license, support, and training costs. ;)