I know that we all think the NXT is fantastic, but here is proof about how popular it is. The TIOBE Programming Community Index ranks NXT-G in at 20th position. (it was as high as 15th in Feb last year). When up against such programming heavyweights such as Java, C, PHP etc that's not a bad effort.
Admittedly their methodology might not be the most accurate, as they derive their rankings based on a search engine check of the phrase "NXT-G Programming" and the number of hits it returns. But we'll take the compliment anyway!
Interesting graph of rankings, it looks like straight after Christmas there was a surge in queries for "NXT-G Programming" and an overall stead increase over the last 4 years.
The full list - http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
The methodology - http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_definition.htm
Thanks to reader Bryant for sending this in!
3 comments:
I would guess the actual position is even better. For regular users, it's just 'LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Software'.
NXT-G is something the community came up with.
Laurens,
We were told by LEGO Education when the NXT first came out that the official name was NXT-G :)
Mmm, LEGO Ed sells "LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT Software 2.1", they don't have NXT-G (searching gives no results).
I may be wrong, but a large group of customers may not know the name. Not really a problem for the statistics but possibly confusing to new customers.
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