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RedMonk publishes a regular state of the nation examining programming language popularity as a function of activity in Stack Overflow and GitHub. The rankings have become more useful as we have established a reasonable time frame to examine trends, and as such my colleague Rachel Stephens recently published the above chart. When I first looked at it the data point that immediately struck me was th

This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by IBM. From Java to Node.js, IBM remains at the forefront of open source innovation. Try our code patterns to help build the future of open source. With the second quarter looming, it’s time for us to drop our first quarter bi-annual Programming Language rankings. As always, these are a continuation of the work original

This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by YLD. Experts in custom software development and pioneers in cutting edge technologies (Node, React); we enable you to innovate and stay ahead of the competition. Get in touch. Given that we’re into March, it seems like a reasonable time to publish our Q1 Programming Language Rankings. As always, these are a continuati

TL: DR – Gin and Beego rule the roost for Go based web application frameworks, go-kit and micro are the most popular microservices toolkits. The dependence on single contributors is a concern for several frameworks. Framework: ‘a basic structure underlying a system, concept, or text.’ Since its initial launch by Google in 2009, Go has established a loyal and vocal community of users. The Go commun

This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by Pivotal, the company behind Spring and Cloud Foundry. Join us in San Francisco for SpringOne Platform, a cloud-native event for the professional Java developer. Register here using the promo code S1P_RedMonk100 for $100 off your pass. With a new and stable process for collecting the base metrics, it’s time to publish

We live in a society obsessed with youth. Tech is no different from the wider culture. Startup culture in particular thrives on the idea that you’re past it by the time you’re 30. Mark Zuckerburg is 33 years old. Some Facebook employees quietly started call him Uncle Zuck while he was in his still in his late 20s. Brutal. Younger founders and employees are willing and able to work longer hours, an

After clearing a series of obstacles – some mundane and irrelevant, others much less so – it’s time to publish our bi-annual RedMonk Programming Language Rankings. As many are aware, these rankings are a continuation of the original work that Drew Conway and John Myles White first looked at the question late in 2010. From a macro perspective, the process remains the same: we extract language ranki

With the spring and summer travel schedule drawing to a close, we finally have had time to sit down and run the numbers collected back in June. As always, aside from the fact that we run our own GitHub rankings now, the process used for our bi-annual programming language rankings remains the same as when Drew Conway and John Myles White first looked at the question late in 2010. We have continued

This iteration of the RedMonk Programming Language Rankings is brought to you by HP. The tools you want, the languages you prefer. Built on Cloud Foundry, download the HP Helion Development Platform available today. It being the third quarter, it is time at RedMonk to release our bi-annual programming language rankings. As always, the process has changed very little since Drew Conway and John Myle

Update: These rankings have been updated. The third quarter snapshot is available here. With two quarters having passed since our last snapshot, it’s time to update our programming language rankings. Since Drew Conway and John Myles White originally performed this analysis late in 2010, we have been regularly comparing the relative performance of programming languages on GitHub and Stack Overflow.

A while ago, I wanted to get a little quick feedback on some data I was playing with, but the day was almost over and I wasn’t done working on it yet. I decided to tweet my rough draft of a graph of GitHub language trends anyway, followed later by a slight improvement. Trends over time, smoothed to make it a little easier to follow Much to my surprise, that graph was retweeted more than 2,000 time

Over the past year in particular, an increasing number of open-source projects in Go have emerged or gained significant adoption. Some of them: Docker Packer Serf InfluxDB Cloud Foundry’s gorouter and CLI CoreOS’s etcd and fleet Vitess, YouTube’s tooling for MySQL scaling Canonical’s Juju (rewritten in Go) Mozilla’s Heka A Go interface to OpenStack Swift Heroku’s Force.com and hk CLIs Apcera’s NAT

As long as we have been doing our programming language rankings here at RedMonk, dating back to the original publication by Drew Conway and John Myles White, we have been trying to find the correct timing. Should it be monthly? Quarterly? Annually? While the appetite for up to date numbers is strong, the truth is that historically changes from snapshot to snapshot have been minimal. This is in par

Community Metrics: Comparing Ansible, Chef, Puppet and Salt In March of last year, spurred by in part by a high volume of requests, we examined a few of the community metrics around the configuration management tools Chef and Puppet. Not intended as a technical comparison, it was rather an attempt to assess their traction and performance relative to one another across a number of distinct communit

Is it possible to rank programming languages by their efficiency, or expressiveness? In other words, can you compare how simply you can express a concept in them? One proxy for this is how many lines of code change in each commit. This would provide a view into how expressive each language enables you to be in the same amount of space. Because the number of bugs in code is proportional to the numb

In December of 2010, Drew Conway decided to explore in quantitative fashion one of the more popular and contentious subjects debated by developers: the relative popularity of programming languages. To do this, he compared the traction of the languages on both GitHub and StackOverflow, communities that are both popular with developers and yet have somewhat distinct communities. GitHub’s rankings ar

In February of last year, I purchased a Motorola Xoom Android tablet from Verizon the day they went on sale. Intended to serve as a travel machine for shorter trips – same days to Boston or New York, as an example – it adequately served in that role until November of 2011, when I purchased a MacBook Air 11″. While that machine was intended to replace my dying Thinkpad X301, not my Xoom, in the end

For years now, it has been self-evident to us at RedMonk that programming language usage and adoption has been fragmenting at an accelerating rate [coverage]. As traditional barriers to technology procurement have eroded [coverage], developers have been empowered to leverage the runtimes they chose rather than those that were chosen for them. This has led to a sea change in the programming languag

According to Ohloh, MySQL and MongoDB have little in common. One’s seen commits from over a thousand people, the other shy of sixty. One’s 1.1M+ lines of code, the other not even two hundred thousand. And architecturally, the projects are quite distinct. But in many respects, MongoDB is the new MySQL. Not because MongoDB is a replacement, as Joseph Ritchey argues in his piece “MongoDB is the New M

No, not “because I said so.” The best reason to pay attention to node.js is the audience that is paying attention to it. Joe Shaw’s pointer the other day was just the latest in a string of node.js mentions. By now you’ve probably heard that the folks from Heroku recently – as in two weeks ago yesterday – announced experimental support for the project to a shortlist of their users. Less visible are

In the era of the open source rug pull, the role of open source foundations is more important than ever. The “rug pull” here refers to companies that have used open source as a distribution mechanism, building a community and user base, before changing the license to...

If you peel back the label and its says “Grid” or “OGSA” underneath… its not a cloud. If you need to send a 40 page requirements document to the vendor then… it is not cloud. If you can’t buy it on your personal credit card… it is not a cloud If they are trying to sell you hardware… its not a cloud. If there is no API… its not a cloud. If you need to rearchitect your systems for it… Its not a clou