Ruby ruled in 2006

TIOBE firması her ay arama motorlarını (Google, Yahoo, MSN, vs.) kullanarak programlama dillerinin kullanım oranlarını araştırıyor. Her sene başında da bir önceki yıl ile kıyaslayarak bir rapor hazırlıyor. 2006 yılı sonuçlarına göre Java liderliğini korumuş fakat Ruby en fazla artış göstererek 2006 yılının programlama dili seçilmiş.

TIOBE Programming Community Index for January 2007

Position Jan 2007	Position Jan 2006	Delta in Position	Programming Language	Ratings Jan 2007	Delta Jan 2006	Status
1	1		Java	19.160%	-3.10%	A
2	2		C	15.807%	-3.20%	A
3	3		C++	10.425%	-1.04%	A
4	5		(Visual) Basic	9.123%	+0.03%	A
5	4		PHP	7.943%	-1.46%	A
6	6		Perl	6.237%	-0.81%	A
7	7		C#	3.521%	-0.03%	A
8	8		Python	3.502%	+0.90%	A
9	10		JavaScript	2.845%	+1.31%	A
10	21	11 *	Ruby	2.519%	+2.15%	A
11	11		SAS	2.343%	+1.18%	A
12	9		Delphi	2.336%	+0.75%	A
13	12		PL/SQL	1.570%	+0.54%	A
14	22	8 *	D	1.335%	+0.97%	A-
15	20		ABAP	1.229%	+0.82%	A-
16	14		Lisp/Scheme	0.674%	+0.07%	B
17	18		Ada	0.638%	+0.17%	B
18	13		COBOL	0.637%	-0.13%	B
19	15		Pascal	0.570%	+0.04%	B
20	34	14 *	Transact-SQL	0.510%	+0.34%	B

We are glad to announce that Ruby has become "Programming Language of the Year 2006". Ruby has the highest popularity increase in a year of all programming languages (+2.15%). Runner up this year is JavaScript with +1.31%. Both languages are boosted by their corresponding frameworks, Ruby On Rails and Ajax. This might be a new trend. In the recent past it was necessary to have a large company behind the language to get it in the spotlight (Sun with Java, Microsoft with C#), but nowadays a killer app appears to be sufficient. Viral marketing via the Internet works! The winners of the last 2 years, PHP and Java, are the losers of this year. Other trends that are observed are the growth of dynamically typed languages and the fact that the difference in popularity between languages is getting less.

Category	Ratings Jan 2007	Delta Jan 2006
Object-Oriented Languages	52.3%	+1.4%
Procedural Languages	45.3%	-2.3%
Logical Languages	1.6%	+0.8%
Functional Languages	0.7%	+0.1%

Category	Ratings Jan 2007	Delta Jan 2006
Statically Typed Languages	57.9%	-5.1%
Dynamically Typed Languages	42.1%	+5.1%

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