My bad, I should have read the description of the graph in more details. I think that using github for popularity is wrong, though. Github is an open source source control system, you can bet that a huge portion of the developer community is not being counted by looking at github.
StackOverflow looks like a much better source of data since even developers who are working on proprietary/closed source software or not engaged in any kind of community at all might one day to post a comment or ask a question there. I'd be curious to see this graph adjusted when it's sourced just from StackOverflow instead of being both StackOverflow and github. -- Cédric On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/12/10 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: > > This simple fact is enough to make the whole graph look very questionable > to > > me. > > There is a staggering amount of software written in Visual Basic, even if > > you break it down by individual versions. There is no way that the Scala > > code base can come even remotely close to that. > > What does the popularity of a programming language have to do with its > installed base? I don't think there is even an implicit claim that > there is more scala code out "in the wild" than there is vb. There > is, however, a direct claim that there is more stuff tagged as such in > both stack overflow and in github. That is something you can verify. > > If you were to chart out a graph that had lines of code written on the > paycheck, I would expect to see scala plummet. Of course, I might > expect some other languages that people don't like to start rising. > > More amusingly, chart out languages used in CS research projects. I > would think Haskel would start rising there. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
