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Survey Says C Dominated New '08 Open-Source Projects
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."
Seeing as one of the projects mentioned with the most releases was in C#, is it lumping C,C++,C#, etc all under one label?
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I'm surprised C++ didn't make the list.
I can C clearly now...
C|N>K
Seriously, who ever heard of that company? Anyway, here is their actual press release, including a bogus list with 10 random apps I never heard of.
And by the way, Python got 10%.
Well, no.
"X has been used for Y" does not demonstrate that "X is suitable for Y".
'But at the same time, show me a large scale project done in PHP, and I'll show you a large scale project that would have been better off in Python.'
With all do respect, I find that most worshipers at the altar of python feel the same way about anything that doesn't require C for the sake of performance.
I realize you guys feel that code should LOOK pretty. But not everyone agrees that you need the language to mandate style and FUNCTIONALLY python is no more capable than Perl (example intentionally chosen to make pythonites cring). For most web projects, php is as capable as either.
Besides, he claimed PHP was unsuitable for large projects not merely that there were better choices. PHP is suitable and demonstrably so. There are languages that aren't, like VB. There are no large projects primarily written in VB for this reason despite the fact that vb was extremely popular.
For the services that they provide...
I'd say that it is quite remarkable.
Love sees no species.
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%.
...as measured by lines of code
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Three of the world's top 10 websites are PHP-based. Wikipedia, and facebook, along with vast chunks of yahoo.
I'm gonna go ahead and argue that "X has been successfully used for Y by 3 of the top 10 organizations in the Y industry" is pretty solid evidence that "X is fairly suitable for Y". In fact, I think you'd be hard pressed to demonstrate that "X is unsuitable for Y", given the level of success these sites continue to achieve.
WP, Facebook, and Yahoo all have their business problems, but PHP is the least of them.
Why throw JavaScript in there? The rest are server-side languages, while JavaScript is client-side.
Two reasons I can think of:
1) An increasing amount of number of applications are being delivered via the web browser
2) JavaScript increasingly lives a number of other places besides the browser. See Rhino, JScript.NET, Seed, and probably a few other places I'm not thinking of right now.
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What's the bet that most of the 7,000 new open source projects were GNOME bindings for "Hello World"?
sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});