Blog Archive » Ranking the popularity of programming languages. Posted: December 9th, 2010 | Author: drewconway | Filed under: outliers | Tags: languages, programming, visualization | 54 Comments How would you rank the popularity of a programming language?
People often discuss which languages are the best, or which are on the rise, but how do we actually measure that? One way to do so is to count the number of projects using each language, and rank those with the most projects as being the most popular. Another might be to measure the size of a language’s “community,” and use that as a proxy for its popularity. Each has their advantages and disadvantages. Solution: measure both, and compare. This week John Myles White and I set out to gather data that measured both the number of projects using various languages, as well as their community sizes.
The above chart shows the results of this data collection, where high rank values indicate greater popularity, i.e., the most popular languages on each dimension are in the upper-right of the chart. New Job: CTO of Dating DNA. I’ve had a few friends ask me about my current employment, and if I ended up switching jobs.
So I thought I would answer them here, or at least have somewhere to point them to. The answer is: yes and no. A quick recap: a few months ago I was given the chance to apply for a position at ARUP Laboratories, which is the medical testing facility for the University of Utah. It is a great company to work for, and listed by Forbes’ as one of best companies to work for. During the interview process, when I made it past the initial rounds and was invited down to interview in person with the developer team, I told my biggest client (Dating DNA) I was interviewing with ARUP. My primary reason for trying to find a new job was Joanna and I are trying to start our family, and when we have kids I want Joanna to be able to stay at home. But at the end of the day, I officially accepted Dating DNA’s offer, and accepted the position of Chief Technology Officer.
Workday raises bar on integration-as-a-service. Recognizing broad integration as an essential ingredient to modern business agility, Workday today delivered a set of cloud-based integration capabilities to its partner ecosystem and growing stable of SaaS ERP users.
The Workday Integration Cloud Platform is joined by a graphical tools suite designed to broaden the use of integration by more types of workers so they -- as well as IT -- can build and deploy the desired integrations that best support processes among and between businesses. Workday is using its SaaS-based enterprise solutions for human resources, payroll, and financial management as a beachhead for popularizing integration platform as a service (iPaaS). The goal is to allow for complex, custom integrations to be built using Workday tools and then be deployed and managed in the Workday Cloud. [Disclosure: Workday is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.] Early advocacy of iPaaS Beat the complexity Benefits of multi-tenancy. Is there such a thing as the Scoble Effect? Mark Fidelman poses an interesting question.
Is there a Scoble Effect at Rackspace? Mark argues there is and that it might drive stock value. You can see the basis of his argument from the linked infographic. In the accompanying post Mark says: When Scoble started at Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) on March 19, 2009 the stock was trading at $5.98 dollars. Mark is careful to caveat his response, noting there may be many other factors in play. Spend any time speaking with these types and you quickly understand that what they want to know is: how are customers experiencing XYZ company's products? Mark argues positively for Scoble's influence but that would not be possible without the socializing technology many of us take for granted.
Now to what Scoble does. Scoble makes a ton of videos, often about startups. Whenever I hear that this or that technology delivers XYZ benefits I have to ask myself: where's the evidence? Is Scoble any different? That's important.