February Tiobe Index shows ColdFusion drop

Posted At : February 10, 2006 12:20 PM
Related Categories: ColdFusion,Computer News

The February Tiobe Programming Community index is out. Last month's showed ColdFusion at 16 and this month it is at 18. This does NOT appear to be because CF's popularity is dropping (last Feb CF was at #30), but rather there are a couple other languages that are a bit more popular right now. What I don't get is Visual FoxPro. It is #16 for Feb...are there really that many people out there using it? If so, why? It's also interesting to note that C, PHP, Perl, and Python are all decreasing. Java is still #1, while VB and C# show continued growth.

If you are wondering how Tiobe makes this index, they've now got a separate definition page. This is NOT a market share analysis, but it shows how much activity there is for a specific language on the net, including websites, blogs, newsgroups, products, mailing list archives, etc..

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I'm happy to say that Visual FoxPro is being adopted by more and more developers for doing DATA applications. It is really 3 things - 1. a language 2. a RAD/IDE 3. a database.

It is exceptional at being the glue between disparate systems, and whilst there may not be as many current VFP developers as ColdFusion Developers - most VFP developers are staying gainfully employed with lots of work.

If you take a look at the June 2006 Tiobe NewsFlash, you'll see this bit - 'Visual FoxPro fans published a site called "Getting Googled For The Tiobe Metrics Count", explaining how to push Visual FoxPro in the TPC rankings.' It's an interesting piece (I wrote it) and you may want to study it a bit.

warmest regards [Bill]
# Posted By William Sanders | 7/1/06 9:05 AM
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