Is C# is taking over VB.NET? Or just a trend?
Its my opinion and Google's Trend that programmers are using every day more C# instead of VB.NET.
Google Trend is a great tool to analyze what users are searching for, per time, country, city and language.
Many years ago, VB.NET was used by lots of programmers that wanted to start using .NET and were coming from the VB world. With time looks like those programmers are working in production code that requires C# as many companies decide to move to C# as is a better structured language.
Also I was curious to see how is C# doing against Java, still many people out there are using Java. However looks like every year the number is decreasing.
And finally is important to see how many people are still using C++:
The number is not surprising, people are moving to managed code. Writing the same program in C++ instead of C# would take 5 times more as well as debugging and bug tracking becomes pretty hard.
I wonder how those graphics will look like in 5 years.
Cheers
Al