Here are programming language trends from very different sources.
1. According to TIOBE Programming Community Index, here are the top 10 programming languages.
- Java
- C
- C++
- PHP
- Visual Basic
- PERL
- Python
- C#
- JavaScript
- Ruby
TIOBE Programming Community index page, shows the trends of increasing/decreasing popularity as well and contains lots of other useful information.
2. This programming language usage index shows information about languages used in open source projects. It has a slightly different story to tell. Obviously VB is not the most popular for open source software.
3. The SkillMarket provides a tech hiring patterns.
4. Google trends, which shows search trends, only shows 5 different terms at a time. I broke the list into compiled languages (C, C++, Java, C#) and scripting languages (perl, python, php, ruby, javascript).
Probably a more accurate method is to track the searches at major book sellers, publishers.
Update
June 9, 2008
In the June version of these trends, both Python and PHP and Python are moving up while VB and C# are moving down.
