On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Alex Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure how much I believe this ranking is reflective. I think it's meaningful if it's correlated with other data, such as job boards, presence on Stack Overflow, activity of various online (mailing-lists, reddit, forums) and offline (user groups) communities, etc... The #1/#2 thing should not be taken too seriously, but what is clear is that the three most widespread languages are most likely the first three languages you see displayed on TIOBE, regardless of the ordering. > Searching for java questions on the web these days yields high quality > results very quickly. Many java technologies in use right now have been > around awhile and many of the knotty problems have more libraries than you > can shake a stick at. Maybe it's more an indication the Java has slowed in > forward movement rather then declined in popularity? It's not we've had > large new language features in awhile. > You seem to equate getting not getting new features with declining, I don't think this correlation exists. I actually don't think there is any correlation at all if we just look at two mainstream languages: C# has been receiving a steady stream of new features since its inception, Java, very much less so, and yet, both languages are thriving and possess a huge ecosystem. > Sadly Scala drops in two places below Erlang! Again, I don't think this means much in term of ranking, but it certainly means that Scala is as marginal as it was last year. As marginal as Erlang and other languages that are positioned in the 20+ ranking on that scale. > With play 2.0 now out; I hope that helps pick things up more quickly. > Given the considerable push back that Play 2.0 has been receiving, I'm not so sure about this. I think Play 2 will suffer a lot from their move to Scala because they will lose a lot more users (Play1/Java users) than they will gain new ones (Scala developers). -- 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.
