Measuring health and ethics in programming languages

Measuring Health and Ethics
in programming languages

January 2016
Luis García Castro

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Introduction

Luis García Castro

Software Engineer @ Sopra Steria

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The usual comparisions...

by projects created on Github since 2010

Source: Google BigQuery + Github Archive

by jobs posted on Indeed.com

Source: Indeed.com/jobs

by activity in StackOverflow

Source: StackOverflow.com/tags

by corporate interest

#1 . . . Java
#2 . . . Javascript
#3 . . . Python
#4 . . . C
#5 . . . PHP
#6 . . . C++
#7 . . . Ruby
#8 . . . C#
#9 . . . Perl
#10 . . . Objective-C
#11 . . . Scala
#12 . . . Haskell
#13 . . . Matlab
#13 . . . R
#15 . . . Clojure

...

Source: Gartner Programming Language Index for 2014 | Gartner.com

Rust is not even there

But we can go further...

Original idea and disclaimers first...

Concerning governance...

Original Source: unknown (sorry)

This aspects are related to the Governance itself, but also to the community and the language general health

Governance systems: BDFLs vs Boards

Source: teaparty.org

BDFLs

Dennis Ritchie* in C
Guido van Rossum in Python
Yukihiro Matsumoto* in Ruby
Larry Wall in Perl
Rich Hickey in Clojure

Main Free Software Licenses

Source: Understanding the Open Source License and Compliance Issues

Some licenses are no copy left compatible:

GPL: FSF yes, copyleft Yes
BSD: FSF yes, GPL compatible NO, copyleft No
MIT: FSF yes, GPL compatible yes, copyleft No
AL: FSF yes, GPL compatible yes, copyleft No
MPL: FSF yes, GPL compatible yes, copyleft Partial

Community size and relevance

Source: Nicolas Vigier | Flickr

Community diversity

Source: Django Girls at PyConEs 2015

Attributes: age, culture, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical or mental difference, politics, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, and subculture.

Source: python.org

Language Health

Source: Redmonk.com

Language popularity

TIOBE Programming Community index - Nov 2015

Source: TIOBE Programming Community Index

The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors

Public presence (and activity)