I began compiling very crude statistics on programming language popularity back in 2009, and just kept doing it periodically. Initially I did it manually, but I finally got smart and wrote the following Racket program to scrape the results automatically:
https://gist.github.com/lojic/83fff86aeea6af1c31ac The numbers should clearly be taken lightly, but there is *some* information to be had. Here is the latest post: http://blog.lojic.com/2016/02/24/programming-language-popularity-part-ten/ I am fortunate in being able to choose whatever tool I feel is best, so popularity isn't that important to me. Having a critical mass of libraries is, but that's another matter. After a decade of C/C++, followed by a decade of Java, I came across Ruby, and it has been my primary development language for the last decade. Ruby was such an improvement over Java that it finally dawned on me to make a purposeful search to see if I might get an improvement over Ruby that it was over Java. Thus began a nine year search through Common Lisp, Haskell, Clojure, Standard ML, OCaml, Julia, Pony (barely), etc., and Racket has emerged as the clear winner for me personally. I'm already as productive in Racket as I am in Ruby for a number of things, but I do have a fair amount of work to do before I'm as productive in web development as I am with Rails. I'm hoping that 2016 will be the year of preparation to allow a complete switch. Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
