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Real popularity or training alert?

After Black Duck Software acquired the search engine koders.com , over 200 million lines of code were added to its search repository. The company analyzed the search queries and found out that Ruby is the fourth programming language after their number after Java, C / C ++ and C #. There is no doubt that this is quite interesting data, but what are they talking about?


According to Black Duck, developers are looking for Ruby code on an unprecedented scale, making a huge number of search queries. Eran Strod, head of the company's sales department, states: “This indicator is acceptable for assessing the popularity of a programming language among developers. If developers are looking for Ruby code, then they are looking for examples, algorithms, methods, etc. This most likely indicates the use of Ruby in new developments.

Ruby, though, is rarely used in software development. At least this was the case in the past, but in the future we can expect new developments using this programming language. Large companies are already using Ruby on Rails to develop their own applications. ”
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Strod still admits that only 5% of the search queries from koders.com are aimed specifically at searching for Ruby code, so it is still quite early to say that it can outrun Java or C ++. “Ruby is quite often compared to PHP, JavaScript, Perl and Python. Like Ruby, all of these languages ​​are scripted; Each of them is used to solve a fairly large number of different tasks. However, much of the “excitement” around Ruby is associated with Ruby On Rails, a framework for developing Web applications. When we started tracking data in 2004, the share of requests for PHP was 11%, now it is only 3%. According to our data, Ruby is the king among scripting languages, ”says Strod.

However, not everyone agrees with the increasing popularity of Ruby among programmers. Esther Schindler of CIO believes that this may or may not mean lifting for Ruby. It comes from the unpredictability of the Ruby-programmers community. Esther assures us of the following: “Any, even in a whisper, a bad word addressed to Ruby (or, even worse, criticism from him), and an enormous number of programmers devoted to this language rush to the noise. However, this is not talking about the popularity of Ruby, but about the active and interested developer community around a language that is so passionate and reverent about the latter. ”

Whatever the reason for the sharp rise in the number of Ruby-related requests, it is always interesting to watch the Open Source community use development tools. If you are interested in additional information, Black Duck has them. According to the company itself, they collect various statistical information that anyone can look at on the page set aside for this. At the moment, she points to statistics on Ruby, but you can also look at information on some other popular programming languages. For example, in September 2008, the most popular search query for Ruby was proxy , and the most popular project was SafariWatir . Draw conclusions.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/43780/


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