D Moves to 12th Place in Top Programming Languages

JMNorris nospam at nospam.com
Sun Apr 27 03:14:22 PDT 2008


Jim Burnes <jvburnes at gmail.com> wrote in
news:futa8e$hi8$1 at digitalmars.com: 

> I had no idea that D was approaching this level of popularity, but
> apparently D has moved from 14th place last in April 2007 to 12th
> place last month. 
> 
> It's within striking range of Javascript and C# is about 4 times as
> popular.  Python is 5 times as popular and C++ is 10 times as popular. 
> 
> Considering the market advantages and head start those languages have
> over D I think 12th place is pretty remarkable. 
> 
> Let's keep the effort up.  D is a great language and worth it.
> 
> Here is the page:
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html 

D's Tipbe index rating (though not its position relative to other 
languages) slipped from Nov 2007 through March 2008.  Since the Tiobe index  
basically measures buzz, LET'S ALL BUZZ!  :-)

-- 
JMNorris



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