As I recently noticed and already mentioned by Jim McKeeth Delphi made it back into the Top Ten of TIOBE’s Programming Community Index. Actually “we” are Ninth!

Unfortunately TIOBE’s history chart is inaccurate (it shows the history for the current top ten, not including those which fell off the index), but I think Delphi was kicked off in 2006/2007. Imo, this happened mainly because of two factors: emerging dynamic languages (Ruby and JavaScript) and the spin-off announcement (remember DevCo?), which made quite some Delphi folks believe it would all go down hill now, thus moving to other programming communities.

The interesting thing is that C# is Eighth and is very close to Delphi, so with some community efforts we might make it next month

Important is to understand how TIOBE collects its statistical data. They basically perform +”<language> programming” searches on Google. So its important that all Delphi relevant pages contain a “Delphi programming” phrase. In other words: If you want to help pushing Delphi up, make sure all your Blog pages etc contain “Delphi programming”.

I just checked my own blog and what a shame, I have “Delphi” but not “Delphi programming” – I immediately updated that though

To check your own pages just enter this in Google:

http://www.google.de/search?q=site%3Awww.YourSiteHere.com+%2B”delphi+programming”

I ran a few quick searches, and found that there is obviously a lot of room for improvements