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.
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:
So I must assure you that the rumors about the demise of Visual Basic are contrived.
Position Oct 2008 | Position Oct 2007 | Delta in position | Programming language | Ratings Oct 2008 | Delta Oct 2007 | Status |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Java | 20.949% | -0.67% | A | |
2 | 2 | C | 15.565% | + 0.97% | A | |
3 | 4 | C ++ | 10.954% | + 1.37% | A | |
4 | 3 | (Visual) Basic | 9.811% | -1.35% | A | |
5 | 5 | Php | 8.612% | -0.89% | A | |
6 | 8 | Python | 4.565% | + 1.13% | A | |
7 | 6 | Perl | 4.419% | -0.93% | A | |
8 | 7 | C # | 3.767% | + 0.03% | A | |
9 | thirteen | Delphi | 3.288% | + 1.75% | A | |
10 | 10 | Ruby | 2.860% | + 0.47% | A | |
eleven | 9 | Javascript | 2.670% | -0.01% | A | |
12 | 12 | D | 1.333% | -0.26% | A | |
thirteen | eleven | PL / SQL | 1.024% | -0.94% | A- | |
14 | 14 | SAS | 0.600% | -0.78% | B | |
fifteen | 17 | Lua | 0.551% | -0.04% | B | |
16 | 21 | Pascal | 0.520% | + 0.10% | B | |
17 | 22 | ActionScript | 0.506% | + 0.14% | B | |
18 | 16 | COBOL | 0.491% | -0.19% | B | |
19 | 18 | Lisp / scheme | 0.485% | -0.09% | B | |
20 | fifteen | Abap | 0.445% | -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:
So I must assure you that the rumors about the demise of Visual Basic are contrived.