How popular is REALbasic?

· Apr 25, 06:20 PM

According to the TIOBE Programming Community Index, REALbasic may now be as popular as Oberon and Algol.

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  1. I was more a Modula-2 fan than an Oberon groupie.

    MacMETH was an amazingly fast, free compiler for 680×0 family Macs. I continued to use it under emulation with my PowerPC Macs and then in OS X under Classic (again on my PowerPC Macs). Moving to Intel Macs made using MacMETH or my MacMETH developed apps impossible. So as I occasionally need one of these old apps, I’m re-writing in RB.

    I tried to like the Object Oriented goodness of Oberon. But the operating system was the language and the language was the operating system, and I never really liked that. Or maybe my feeble little brain could never grasped the beauty of it. Or something.

    But Modula-2 and Postscript are also equally ranked with RB — not just Oberon and Algol. :o)

    — Kirk Gray · Apr 26, 01:45 PM · #

  2. Interesting to see that VB is still ranked #3

    Not sure I want to see RB get to that level but it’d sure be nice to see it move up perhaps closer to being one of the top 50

    On the other hand there are a number of languages on that list that I’ve used and long since forgotten or wish I could forget :P

    — norman · Apr 27, 04:02 PM · #

  3. I have to say I didn’t fully get it how the TIOBE index is generated. It seems however that RB may suffer a bit on its own active user forum: the RS forums remain the best place to get information but since that is just one site, it may affect on the TIOBE popularity. Also it probably affects a lot whether certain language is used in education or not: when 1000 universities post code samples in their sites that probably matters quite a lot. It would also explain why Pascal is still on TOP 10.

    — timo · May 7, 05:48 AM · #

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