Ranking the popularity of programming languages

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28 points·agconway··8 comments

Some interesting outliers that confirm what I noticed generally -

- I always wondered why there were so many Delphi questions on Stack Overflow, despite seeing very little Delphi activity elsewhere

- F# developers don't ask many questions

> very little Delphi activity elsewhere

So that might explain why the Delphi questions have aggregated on SO.

influential people in the delphi community promoted the use of stackoverflow partly to raise the profile of the language. Delphi is not dead and all that.

There was a parsing error with the "#" in the function for grabbing StackOverflow tag counts, so now F# is ranked much higher.

This is an interesting comparison, but it is most likely just a high overlap between their userbases - people that use github also use stackoverflow, and vice versa. This also doesn't include the number of people programming with a language in a corporate environment whose work is not public nor on external servers.

Megan Squire posted in a comment this link to a collection of multiple source code repository websites datasets, although it is only open source projects: http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/list

Interesting. I'd like to add some options like that for http://langpop.com . Some charts that let you look at jobs vs search engine hits or books vs projects, that kind of thing.

I wish I could find a way to make a bit more money from it than the ads provide, though.

have you considered a job board?

I tried some affiliate links to some job site, but there was zero traction:-/

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