The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: February 2012

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15 pointssogrady4 comments

To be quite honest I was pleasantly surprised to see Clojure as far up on the tier two languages as it is. As well I was please to see it was second in the amount of growth. Having recently jumped into Clojure it is nice to see the market for it expanding.

[disclaimer: i'm the author] not sure where you got the second in growth point, but Clojure does perform well by some metrics.

Ohloh's data suggests cause for concern, however:

http://www.ohloh.net/p/clojure/factoids/15688840

Maybe I misread, but I seem to recall a chart that showed almost 7% growth from your linked-in data. Out of the 5 shown in the bar chart it was the slowest growth, but I assumed that it was significant over languages not listed on that bar chart given that it was in the list of 5. If I misspoke I apologize, my intent was not to misrepresent the data. Looking back on the data, I don't see where I got that it was second as far as growth goes.

Oh, the Java / JVM languages chart, gotcha.

Out of that subset, Clojure is indeed the second fasting growing language. To be clear, however, that's just a subset of Java related platforms. Clojure's overall growth amid the wider language landscape on LinkedIn is a little above average.

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