Yes, stats like this can be deceiving when automated queries are used. One of my web2py projects on github is categorized as "C" rather than python or javascript! I can only assume this is because I have the lxml library in there (?) But I've never written a line of C in my life, and it certainly isn't the language for that app!
Ian On Friday, March 30, 2012 10:01:40 AM UTC-4, Wikus van de Merwe wrote: > > I don't agree that multiprocessing is difficult in Python. Threading is > difficult, multiprocessing is easy. Together with asynchronous I/O this > brings the scalability. You think node.js is multithreading? No, it's > single thread with event loop and non-blocking callbacks based I/O. And so > is Twisted or Eventlet and they perform equally well. If you need to scale > you add another instance of the event loop running on a separate core and > route your traffic through a load balancer. > > I also disagree that python 3.x is a problem. It is a better language than > 2.x. It's a shame that the transition of many projects is happening so > slow. If the life of 2.x is extended it will only cause further delays in > transition to 3.x. > > Also, in all this discussion on how tragic it is that Python has been > surpassed by the Javascript, we need to remember that TIOBE index is > calculated by counting hits on the top 9 search engines using a query of > "<language> programming". And as Derek has already spotted the query for > Javascript has been extended and includes "JS programming" too [1]. I think > it is much more reasonable to count the number of commits in a given > programming language like ohloh is doing [2]. Then Python is not so much > behind Java/C/C++ and is recovering from a drop in activity in 2011. > > [1] > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_definition.htm > [2] http://goo.gl/suOH6 >
