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Google Programming Languages Failing to Gain Traction
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Although Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple have all developed successful programming languages, Google has yet to produce a language that ranks prominently in the Tiobe Programming Community Index, which measures a program's popularity by examining hits about a particular language on popular search engines.
In the March edition of the index, Google's Go language dropped out of the top 50, while Google's Dart language ranked 78th. Meanwhile, Oracle's Java language ranked first, Microsoft's C# ranked third, and Apple's Objective-C ranked fifth.
"Google is known for its innovation and instant successes, so this is a bit of a disappointment," says Tiobe's Paul Jansen. He says Google "tried very hard the last couple of years to get its own programming languages in the market. They did a lot of PR for it, but they failed for Go and it seems Dart is going to the same way, too."
JavaScript also fared well in the most recent index, rising to the eighth spot. "Since Web sites depend more and more on JavaScript, it is expected that JavaScript's popularity will rise further in the near future," Tiobe says.
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