More accurate language statistics from Roeland Rengelink
Roeland Rengelink did, back in 2001, just what I asked for, eg. compared the growth rate (among others) of various programming languages at Sourceforge. Now he did it again and the numbers aren't so great for Python, actually.
[permalink] [4 comments] 07.04.2005, 17:37
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Posted by Ian Bicking at 08.04.2005, 08:04
I'd thought about doing the same thing, except based on Linux package dependencies -- how many packages in Debian depend on perl, python, etc. But I had a hard time figuring out whether the numbers were accurate, and several compiled languages don't have consistent runtime dependencies, and some languages don't show up in Debian because of licensing (like Java). But I think that would also be an interesting number.
Posted by Paul Moore at 08.04.2005, 18:59
I'm not sure I see why you say the numbers aren't so great for Python. "Since 2003 Python’s growth rate has been accelarating, and it has now reached the level of Java and PHP" sounds pretty good to me.
Posted by Jarno Virtanen at 09.04.2005, 08:44
Oh, I was just comparing his numbers to mine. In the light of my numbers, the growth sounded much better. ;-)