C# moved to #3 on TIOBE chart

[gdhillon]

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]

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]

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]

Microsoft Bizspark program provides free software for startups.

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

[afsina]

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]

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]

Objective-C is actually worse.

[Irfaan]

I have to respect consistency. :)

I find it interesting that the poster mentioned the growth of C# (going from 4th to the 3rd), but didn't mention Objective-C's much larger growth spike (from 8th to 5th place).

To me, that's the bigger story - I imagine all that Objective-C growth is getting targeted squarely at the mobile platforms. That's a lot of dev interest.

[EiZei]

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]

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. :)