C# moved to #3 on TIOBE chart

7 points by gdhillon 14 years ago | 9 comments

Just noticed that C# moved up to #3 on the list of most popular programming list for month of February 2012. I'm assuming this is due to growing popularity of ASP.NET framework. What are your thoughts?

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

spobo 14 years ago |

It's a nice language and a nice platform. The new ASP.NET MVC and EntityFramework stuff is very nicely done too. The community is in the lift as well thanks to the professional stackoverflow network and initiatives like NuGet. It really isn't a bad place to work in. Same deal goes with Visual Basic. Same power, different (imo easier to read, more annoying to write) syntax.

But for a low-budget startup the licensing costs are what'll get you in the long run. Stick with something free to use like ruby, javascript, php, etc.

Irfaan 14 years ago | |

But for a low-budget startup the licensing costs are what'll get you in the long run. Stick with something free to use like ruby, javascript, php, etc.

I take it mono isn't a reasonable replacement on non-Microsoft OSes?

alykhalid 14 years ago | |

Microsoft Bizspark program provides free software for startups.

http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Default.aspx

afsina 14 years ago |

Perhaps main reason for this MS is promoting the language at the expense of Visual Basic. Personally, I think it is a shame that a language targeted mainly to a single OS gain such popularity (not counting Mono.)

Irfaan 14 years ago | |

I think it is a shame that a language targeted mainly to a single OS gain such popularity (not counting Mono.)

I do hope you hold the same cynicism for Objective-C. :P

afsina 14 years ago | | |

Objective-C is actually worse.

EiZei 14 years ago |

A little bit off-topic but does anyone else find odd that Javascript is still ranked below Perl of all things? You'd think between node.js and all the client-side craziness it would have a much stronger showing.

Irfaan 14 years ago |

ASP.Net might be behind the growth, but I wouldn't discount native application development (particularly in the enterprise space). Not everyone writes web apps, after all. :)