Re:TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
by gukjoon on Monday April 09, 2012 @11:09AM
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A bit of the ole Ralph Nadar effect going on here, I presume. Java's share is being cannibalized by Groovy, Scala, Clojure, etc. They should start making a JVM ranking to start consolidating all those languages.
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Re:TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
by davesims on Monday April 09, 2012 @11:52AM
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As Javascript's is cannibalized by node, jquery, ember, etc., etc., etc.
Re:TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
by spullara on Monday April 09, 2012 @12:20PM
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None of those are languages. CoffeeScript does come to mind though.
Re:TIOBE : C overtakes Java as the No.1 programming language
by davesims on Monday April 09, 2012 @04:33PM
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Yes, I understand those are frameworks not languages. The point was that since TIOBE indexes against the word 'javascript' and not 'node,' etc. I think it's possible that JavaScript's relative usage is obscured.
This is purely anecdotal on my part but it seem to me I see many posts or articles talking about 'writing an app in node.js' or 'the UI was written in jQuery' rather than 'written in JavaScript.' This seems to me a phenomena more or less unique to JavaScript.