This may be yesterday's news for some.
"almost half - 47 per cent - of new projects last year used C"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01...e_projects_08/
My only question is: how could 17,000 new open source projects be created last year?
What is there possibly left to program, that hasn't been programmed already?
OS: Linux Mint 13(Maya) LTS 64 bit.
>> What is there possibly left to program, that hasn't been programmed already?
There are two ways to look at the data which prompted this question, I think:
"Wow, there sure is a lot for C developers to do in open source!" Or you read this sentence:
"Wow, not a lot of projects really panned out!" Chances are if a lot of programs did the same or similar things then not one of them got popular enough to possibly fill the need. In turn this prompts a lot of people to do "me too!" projects. That makes your next question a whole lot less interesting, doesn't it? You can get the feeling... it's hard to find interesting projects. Innovation is rare but valuable in society.A testament to the unreliable and inconsistent nature of the beast that can be open-source, 57 per cent of new projects offered just a single downloadable release.
