Programming Languages Popularity In GnomeFiles.org November 7th, 2007

GnomeFiles lists apps (in source & binary) created for the GNOME X11 environment and the GTK+ multi-platform toolkit. All bindings, wrappers & their apps are welcome. I got that definition from Gnomefiles website. I am a software developer. It is normal for me to curios the programming languages popularity in GnomeFiles. A long time ago, I sent email to Eugenia, the admin of GnomeFiles. I asked why not put programming language attribute in project page. With that attribute, people can know what language binding is the most popular. She answered that it is not relevant to put programming language attribute for GnomeFiles website. The GnomeFiles website is for end users not developers. At that time she told me the most popular language binding is Python to answer my curiosity.

Time passed by. I decided to find out the programming languages popularity in GnomeFiles as opportunity to practice Common Lisp. My way to find out the programming languages popularity in GnomeFiles as you can see has many flaws. I use 1333 applications rather than full numbers, 1898 applications. I am too lazy to hunt down all applications. To find out what programming language the application uses, I extract the requirement part of application web page. The requirement usually tells us about programming language they use. For example, if the requirement tells us that it depends on gtkmm library, it means it uses C++. But there are applications using C++ as programming language but not use any binding. It uses pure GTK+ toolkit. My query will put these applications as C programming language applications. There are other flaws too. But I can tolerate with these all flaws.

Read the rest of this entry

0 comments »