Where do I get figures about web application development?

Question

Hi there,

I know this is not truly programming realted, but I think some of you might still have good hints for me:

I'll do a research paper on web application development and for that I would like to have an overview of the dominant languages/frameworks in (Enterprise) Web-Application-Development. Of course I have gut feelings telling me about JEE and ASP.Net, but I strongly doubt, that my professor will accept "gut feelings" for evidence ;-)

So, do any of you know if there are analyst reports or studies about this?

Answer 1

There are a number of websites which maintain "Indexes" of programming language popularity, using a variety of different measures to determine which is most popular. Try these two for a start:

• http://langpop.com/
• http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

Interestingly, the .Net languages aren't quite as popular as you speculated.