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VIRTUALISATION Much ado about nothing: C# use in open source
VIRTUALISATION Much ado about nothing: C# use in open source | Much ado about nothing: C# use in open source |
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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Tuesday, 25 August 2009 | |
  
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Recent figures indicate that C# is the 10th language of choice when it comes to open source. Its use stands at - hold your breath - 1.24 percent, just one-hundredths of a percent more than assembly language. Mono, for the uninitiated, is an attempt by Miguel de Icaza, the co-founder of the GNOME desktop project and currently vice-president of Novell, to replicate parts of Microsoft's .NET development environment as an open source project. Novell is the same company that signed a patent indemnification deal with Microsoft in November 2006, which gave the latter opportunities to spread FUD about Linux. The charges which were levelled have remained just that - unproven charges. Black Duck software has an open source resource centre that provides regularly updated figures on the language breakdown in open source and these figures come from that repository. The grand old man C is top with 40 percent, followed by C++ with 14, Java with 10.95 and the Shell with 8.95. But then what about growth? Is C# at least the fastest growing language when it comes to use? Black Duck answers that query too - the answer is a resounding no, when one looks at the last 12 months for all releases. C# showed the smallest growth of any language that showed an increase - 0.09 percent. By contrast the use of Javascript grew by 2.03 percent, PHP by 0.28 percent, SQL by 1.06 percent and Ruby by 0.22 percent. Much ado about nothing? That certainly appears to be the case. |
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