Evans Data’s Scripters’s Choice Awards are out, and this year’s winner is no other than PHP, with runner-up Ruby and just behind on the podium, Python.
This one is worth reading if you want a look at scripting languages beyond personal biases and myths. Open source developers will love this part:
The top languages in this study are open Psource languages and thus evolve in an organic way. The proprietary Microsoft languages, though backed by the software titan and its many resources, did not satisfy their users as well as any of the open source languages.
Although, you have to wonder whether proprietary languages are just worse, or are expectations set higher.
Interesting to Rubyists, Ruby gets top placement on ease of use, exception handling, maintainability/readability and of course community. Quite surprising to find Ruby 2nd on client-side scripting. Tool availability ranks high, but we need to do something about the quality of these tools.
Ben