software IDE use
December 14, 2010 10:03 AM   Subscribe

Is there a place where I could see that statistics on what percentage of software out there is written with what languages/tools/platforms? When I look at programs I'm always curious to see what language/IDE/graphical toolkit it was written with.

I've worked with Visual C# and Windows Forms to develop graphical applications for Windows. Like for instance, I guess Mac applications are written in XCode, and iphone apps are written there too. I would like to know more stuff like that.
posted by amsterdam63 to Computers & Internet (7 answers total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
http://langpop.com/ gives language popularity breakdown. drdobbs.com will have various bits and pieces about trends.
posted by PickeringPete at 11:30 AM on December 14, 2010


You can generally use 'strings' to figure out what compiler and runtime were used. That doesn't tell you whether an IDE was used though, because generally a binary compiled with an IDE and one built with a makefile and command line tools are indistinguishable, assuming both used the same compiler and linker options. I think it would be a lot more accurate to say that Mac applications are compiled with gcc or llvm. Whether those tools are driven by a GUI or makefile is just a matter of how the project and development team prefers to work, but it makes no difference to the final output.
posted by Rhomboid at 11:33 AM on December 14, 2010


There's the TIOBE index for languages.
posted by pmed at 11:38 AM on December 14, 2010


Also checkout http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2010/12/ranking-programming-languages.php.
posted by PickeringPete at 12:19 PM on December 14, 2010


BuiltWith.com will do this for websites.
posted by blue_beetle at 12:19 PM on December 14, 2010


Those just give statistics on popular languages. Surely there must be studies out there that show the percentage of Java written in Eclipse, C# written in VS, etc. Not to hijack the thread, but I was wondering this myself.
posted by geoff. at 3:56 PM on December 14, 2010


Response by poster: Agreed geoff.
posted by amsterdam63 at 9:03 PM on December 14, 2010


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