language usage indicators
Data generated on Wed Mar 5 22:32:04 2008
Welcome to LUI. This page is a compilation of various sources of data concerning programming language usage. Instead of intertrepeting, it simply provides a few metrics that might be useful to others considering the question of language "popularity".

LUI is generated by a small and simple framework written in Perl. It can easily be extended or modified. The source can be downloaded here (zip).

Raw data for some or all of the below metrics can be downloaded in CSV format: raw.csv

NormalizedGeneralSearch

Similar to the TIOBE index, this searches for the terms "[LANGUAGE] programming" in several search engines and returns a normalized ranking for each language in the index.

SourceForgeProjectLangs

Number of projects in a given language on SourceForge.

SourceForgeTopAllTime

Checks 500 of the "Top All Time" projects on SourceForge, and generates a metric based on the primary language used.

GoogleCodeSearch

Returns results from