The popularity of programming languages

    My post about Small Basic caused a lot of controversy, and among the controversial there are often ideas that Visual Basic is a dying language. From my own experience and the number of familiar VB programmers, I think this is not so. However, let's look at the popular TIOBE Programming Community Index . As you can see from the table, Visual Basic takes an honorable fourth place.

    Position
    Oct 2008
    Position
    Oct 2007
    Delta in positionProgramming languageRatings
    Oct 2008
    Delta
    Oct 2007
    Status
    11Java20.949%-0.67%  A
    22C15.565%+ 0.97%  A
    34
    C ++10.954%+ 1.37%  A
    43
    (Visual) Basic9.811%-1.35%  A
    55Php8.612%-0.89%  A
    68
    Python4.565%+ 1.13%  A
    76
    Perl4.419%-0.93%  A
    87
    C #3.767%+ 0.03%  A
    9thirteen
    Delphi3.288%+ 1.75%  A
    1010Ruby2.860%+ 0.47%  A
    eleven9
    Javascript2.670%-0.01%  A
    1212D1.333%-0.26%  A
    thirteeneleven
    PL / SQL1.024%-0.94%  A-
    1414SAS0.600%-0.78%  B
    fifteen17
    Lua0.551%-0.04%  B
    1621
    Pascal0.520%+ 0.10%  B
    1722
    ActionScript0.506%+ 0.14%  B
    1816
    COBOL0.491%-0.19%  B
    1918
    Lisp / scheme0.485%-0.09%  B
    20fifteen
    Abap0.445%-0.40%  B

    The index is based on the number of developers using the language, the number of software providers developing in this language and the availability of training courses in this language. By the way, the presence of a large number of courses very often indicates the demand for technology and when they ask me what I need to know in order to be quoted on the market, I suggest looking at what they are teaching now - developing and conducting courses is not a cheap lesson, but for training centers it’s a business that brings good income.
    Those interested can learn more about the index and criticize it in the comments.
    It is possible that the approach to rating building is not the best, the data is also not the most accurate (popular search engines and their statistics are used), but even this data is indicative that Visual Basic is not forgotten and will not sink into oblivion in the near future.

    If you look at the dynamics over time, you can see that Visual Basic is practically not losing ground: image

    So I must assure you that the rumors about the demise of Visual Basic are contrived.

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