C# vs Ruby

http://codeclimber.net.nz/archive/2008/09/16/c-vs-ruby.aspx

by nickb • 18 years ago

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jwilliams• 18 years ago

Interesting, but you've got to factor in the fact that C# is a much more specific search term than Ruby...

C# searches are probably mostly about C#. The Ruby result would also contain all the searches involving "Ruby" that aren't related to the language at all.

kxt• 18 years ago

The C# 9-5 theory also supported by the long term view, showing yearly drops between mid-December till January.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&g...

shawndrost• 18 years ago

Interesting, from that page you can see that ruby has many more news stories despite its lower search volume.

Also interesting: on the usa-only graphy, ruby and c# have had about the same search traffic since 1996. http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23,+ruby&date=all&g...

catch23• 18 years ago

Yup.... C# vs Emerald yields the exact same graph. Is Emerald a new language we haven't heard about it?

http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+emerald&ctab=0...

ntoshev• 18 years ago

I hadn't noticed that Google has started to tokenize properly things like C, C++, C#.

Probably because I don't use them recently.

greyman• 18 years ago

> C# is used by people that develop only on their 9-5, Mon-Fri job.

Heh, my case exactly. ;-)

cosmo7• 18 years ago

Obviously the C# guys are on their yachts or flying their planes at the weekend. The Ruby people would have web access from their security guard jobs.

nuclear_eclipse• 18 years ago

The same trend seems to hold for other "corporate" languages, such as PHP, .Net, and C++:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=.net%2C+php%2C+python%2C+c%2B...

chwolfe• 18 years ago

As someone who codes in C# during the week, I would much rather play around with other languages on the weekend to gain new insight and motivation. If Ruby was a popular 9-5 language, I would expect to see a similar drop over the weekend.

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