The latest update to the TIOBE Index reveals notable shifts in the world of software development. While traditional programming languages remain popular, many developers are seeking out...

The latest update to the TIOBE Index reveals notable shifts in the world of software development. While traditional programming languages remain popular, many developers are seeking out technologies that can make sense of the vast amounts of modern digital data. Legacy languages like C, COBOL, Fortran, and Assembly still have their place, but they no longer take center stage.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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    19 days ago

    I can’t take https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ seriously: Visual Basic on place 7 of most popular programming languages right after JavaScript? More popular than Go, Rust, PHP and SQL? Haskell is more popular than TypeScript (scroll down to see other places)? TIOBE isn’t a good metric, as they only check a few websites and a few engineers:

    The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular web sites Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, Bing and more than 20 others are used to calculate the ratings.

    • Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 days ago

      Does SQL count as a programming language?

      I know that you can write DB hooks and stuff but in my mind it still doesn’t register as programming

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      19 days ago

      If they count VBa as Visual Basic is not surprise.

      You’ll be amazed on the amount of development that’s being made over MOffice in not technology companies.

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        19 days ago

        I read further and there is some clarification if you scroll down to “Very Long Term History”. Visual Basic and (Visual) Basic are two entries, where Visual Basic refers to “Visual Basic .NET” since 2014. And (Visual) Basic from the 90s to 2014 is a collection of all Basic dialects, which includes Visual Basic .NET. Color me impressed how to confuse people.

        There is a difference between “Visual Basic” and “(Visual) Basic” in the table above. Until 2010, “(Visual) Basic” referred to all possible dialects of Basic, including Visual Basic. After some discussion, it has been decided to split “(Visual) Basic” into all its dialects such as Visual Basic .NET, Classic Visual Basic, PureBasic, and Small Basic, just to name a few. Since Visual Basic .NET has become the major implementation of Visual Basic, it is now called “Visual Basic”.