"Buzz" around programming decreasing?

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"Buzz" around programming decreasing?

This google trends graph is neccessary for my question: http://www.google.com/trends?q=...

I think you can try this with every programming language (maybe something like ruby will be a bit misleading because you will actually get stats for the gem)

Why is the buzz around like all programming languages decreasing (at least counted in google searches and that does say something)?
Are there any programming languages rising at the moment?

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Objective C seems to be doing fine!

danp 2010-03-05 14:25:39

if you put it on the chart with the other technologies he mentioned it doesn't even register though :/

Jiaaro 2010-03-05 14:34:22

Increased popularity for Objective-C is almost certainly a result of the iPhone. While it's certainly a capable language, it's far behind the times for what is trying to be a primary language for mainstream development.

senfo 2010-03-05 14:38:48

What do you mean by "behind the times for mainstream development"?

mipadi 2010-03-05 15:10:47

+1 A:

Clojure

Jonathan Feinberg 2010-03-05 14:30:43

+3 A:

I think it is somewhat of an anomaly, java can also be misleading because of it's namesave beverage (and the word 'java' going out of style as a name for the beverage)

C++ would be expected to lose traction to newer more high level languages, php is in a similar boat

python searches include the snakes, ruby searches include the gem, .net searches include the TLD

I don't think we have anything to worry about - there is plenty of software left to be written, whether or not people are typing the names of our favorite technologies into google search :)

Jiaaro 2010-03-05 14:33:44

singe google ignores punctuation, .net includes every search of the word "net" which I would imagine is a LOT.

Brian Postow 2010-03-05 15:03:24

Code golf looks like a summer pastime.

Zaid 2010-03-05 14:35:45

+1 A:

isn't that how it should be.

Any programming language would need to be learned and hence queries made but as 'people' learn and teach each other, the queries decrease.

Vaibhav Garg 2010-03-05 14:36:47

But every day day people retire, and new students come in.

Bart van Heukelom 2010-03-05 14:43:07

@Bart - True, but those new students aren't typically learning old languages. They'll be part of the "buzz" of a new language which will start to decline after some period of time.

JasCav 2010-03-05 14:44:10

yes, but also everyday more alternate material is created and alternate methods of learning are generated like books, teachers etc.

Vaibhav Garg 2010-03-05 14:46:10

Why is the buzz around like all programming languages decreasing (at least counted in google searches and that does say something)?

More knowledge freely available == Less questions

I think most of the "buzz" around programming languages on the net are more questionning/answering than anything else.

Are there any programming languages rising at the moment?

I wouldn't base programming language interest on network "hype" measurement.

Klaim 2010-03-05 14:39:39

How do you access the knowledge that is freely available? Mostly by searching in google and finding e.g.: a documentation.

some1 2010-03-05 14:41:21

So more people have enough knowledge to work instead of searching all day on google.

Klaim 2010-03-05 17:03:07

+1 A:

I suppose that what is IT world pages is loosing share of the total traffic of google. Internet is going to everywork and everyhouse, but in the beginnings the IT professionals where more representative.

Pablo Castilla 2010-03-05 14:42:25

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Google losing marketshare to bing? :-D

Chris 2010-03-05 14:44:13

Bing sucks. No seriously. It's like... even worse than that live search thing. I searched something about how you should eat passion fruits and it returned some weird sex practice sites. A PHP script that just randomly counts words in sites and let you search through them would still be far, far better than Bing.It has neat images, though.

some1 2010-03-05 14:50:35

haha, it sure does. Only thing i liked recently were the background pictures of the olympic games. :-D

Chris 2010-03-05 14:53:28

@some1 - That sounds like some good search results to me... :: goes off to use Bing :: ;-)

JasCav 2010-03-05 14:57:23

+4 A:

these graphs misleading. Keywords like Java, python don't represent programming languages in search queries

Stewie Griffin 2010-03-05 14:49:10

I don't think Google Trends is enough evidence to say interest in programming is declining but if it is (or growing less) maybe drag and drop programming systems (such as Wordpress or DSLs) could have something to do with it.

Bart van Heukelom 2010-03-05 14:54:55

Since the number of programming languages is pretty much monotonically increasing, but the number of questions and google searches is roughly static, you get each language having a smaller share...

Brian Postow 2010-03-05 14:57:14

+2 A:

The decline is because of Stack Overflow. No more need to search Google for answers, when we can ask everyone here.

Steve 2010-03-05 15:02:52

exactly what I wanted to say!

Marek 2010-03-05 15:12:17

That's just what people are "searching" for. Perhaps more people are simply going straight to their preferred sources for whatever they're looking for (stackoverflow.com, ruby-lang.org, github.com, etc).

z5h 2010-03-05 15:06:19

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