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       30 December, 2013
       
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       This post was translated from HTML, inevitably some things will have changed or no longer apply - July 2025
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       I found a neat interactive graph of the popularity of various programming languages, so it seemed appropriate to share my growing collection of these indexes, as the year winds down.
       
       Firstly, the new kid on the block, found via Hacker News, (Update - it's no longer online.) it's language popularity on Stack Overflow graphed against its popularity on GitHub. The same combination used by Red Monk, but with more up to date data & hey, mouseovers.
       
 (HTM) Stack Overflow
 (HTM) GitHub
 (HTM) Red Monk
       Then, in no particular order:
       
       - TIOBE Programming Community index
 (HTM) TIOBE Programming Community index
       
       - Popularity of Programming Language index
 (HTM) Popularity of Programming Language index
       
       - Ohloh index
 (HTM) Ohloh index
       
       The Oloh index can be tweaked for a whole bunch of different languages. TIOBE's index is somewhat interactive now too.
       
       My love/hate (well, dissatisfaction more than hate) relationship with Objective C and Ruby looks to continue into 2014, I can't find anything all that much better in the first tier of languages on any of these lists. There are worse fates.
       
       Happy New Year!
       
       Updated 17 November 2024 -- Link to Oloh updated. That name's changed several times in the intervening years.