Thursday, March 06, 2014

India and China Dominate World Programming (By Search Term Anyway)

I decided to go on a rampage and do gather some Google Trends data over the last year on keyword searches related to programming.  Globally this is what I found-

Search Term Top 3 Cities Globally
ASP.Net New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Hyderabad, Gurgaon
SQL New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Gurgaon, Hyderabad
C# New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Hyderabad, Chennai
MySQL Beijing, New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Shanghai
iOS Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi (San Francisco 6th, New York 9th)
Actionscript Beijing, Seoul, Saint Petersburg (San Francisco 9th)
Android Tehrān, Jakarta, Surabaya
Java Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai
Microsoft SQL Server New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Gurgaon, Hyderabad
Photoshop Manila, Ho Chi Minh City, Surabaya
javascript New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Beijing, Hyderabad
Node.js Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul (San Jose 4rth, San Francisco 5th, Seattle 7th, Austin 8th)
AngularJS Beijing, New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Shanghai (San Francisco 4th, San Jose 7th)
PHP Dhaka, Ahmedabad, Chennai
C++ Beijing, Shanghai, Bangalore
HTML5 New Okhla Industrial Development Area, Hyderabad, Chennai

What does this mean? It means to me that most of the world's programming is being done in India and Asia. I no longer think this is due to outsourcing from the West but I'm sure that plays a big role. In my book the future will always belong to those who have the skills and know-how to make things happen. If Google programming search term trends are any indicator, the future is belonging to India and Asia more and more. I also compared some base programming languages to each other to see how they stacked up as far as traffic.

From the data Android OS programmers in India will rule the world :)

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