Posted by admin, Thu Sep 07 08:33:42 UTC 2006

I followed a link from Tim Bray’s blog, about Sun hiring the JRuby developers, and ended up here. Interesting charts, but I wonder if book sales are a good indicator.

O’Reilly Radar > Programming Language Trends

Programming Language market share trend in computer books

I wrote yesterday about the rise of Ruby and Javascript, driven by the move towards Web 2.0 applications. Also worthy of note in these graphs is the long, slow decline of Java and C/C++, and the continuing rise in market share of C#. You can see how Ruby’s sharp ascent follows the introduction of Rails, and that PHP’s fortunes reversed before book sales showed that web developers in search of rapid development languages moved over to RoR (and Microsoft’s ASP.Net suite of technologies.)

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