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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. no C++ by shaitand · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

  2. Re:Just because PHP is popular by KermodeBear · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For the services that they provide...

    Wikipedia now has 200 application servers, 20 database servers and 70 servers dedicated to Squid cache servers. Reference

    I'd say that it is quite remarkable.

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    Love sees no species.
  3. An alternative list by sien · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Tiobe maintains a list that is updated every month that tells a different story.

    For January 2009, rounded; Java, 19%; C, 16%; C++, 10%; VB, 9%; PHP, 10%.