Comments on: C# Trends, big and small

By: Legacy Modernization

Legacy Modernization — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:02:57 +0000

I’d go with the legacy modernization on Java anytime.

By: rca ieftin

rca ieftin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:30:09 +0000

I suppose C# is the best solution for programming. I am impressed by the negative trend of Visual Basic because I love this solution.

If I must choose, the C# solution is better for me.

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:46:32 +0000

can any1 tell me, how bright is c# developer’s future? And can we develop any program in c# that can control computer hardware?

By: web application development

web application development — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:26:49 +0000

has C# search volume really so constant over the years? really surprising.

By: Iflexion

Iflexion — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:00:47 +0000

I think it’s not accurate to mix google search volume and language popularity. Why should we consider the language popular? There should be several more criteria, not only the fact that we search more about it.

By: AJ.NET

AJ.NET — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:22:52 +0000

Hi,

I just repeated a search for VB, c#, and java ( http://www.google.com/trends?q=visual+basic%2C+c%23%2C+java&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 ) and got a similar graph, even showing the same peeks as above. However among those 6 peeks where 5 related to the Java island and just one to the programming language. Given that, I guess that the graph is actually way off the mark…?

PS: The Java island peeks were related to an earthquake, tsunami, ferry accident, jetliner fire, and a landslide — I may see a trend here… .

just my 0,02€
AJ.NET

By: Sample

Sample — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:59:25 +0000

The trends help page makes it sound like the graph is based on Search Term as a percentage of Total Searches, not the search volume of search term. So a declining graph could just be a change in the programmer/regular person ratio of google users.

For comparisons, the first search item is set to 1.0 and the other search terms are a ratio of the Other Item/First item.

If you search trends for “java, c#” (then view each year individually), you will see a closing gap for java/c# searches. It has gone from 7/1 to 4/1.
2004 1.0/0.14
2005 1.0/0.17
2006 1.0/0.19
2007 1.0/0.21
2008 1.0/0.25

1. How does Google Trends work?

Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. We then show you a graph with the results – our Search Volume Index graph.

By: Martijn

Martijn — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:40:07 +0000

Hi Gareth,

I think they stopped searching or there is something not right with the Google Trend results.

If you look at the major languages all of them show a decline:

Google Trends for VB, Python, C++, C#

So C# holding steady seems to indicate a real-world increase.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:54:52 +0000

Was quite surprised to see that the C# search volume has remained so constant over the years. With the relative decline of VB and Java searches, it begs the question, what are all the ex-VB programmers searching for now?