... and VCL is in a steady decline.

http://tinyurl.com/5ddc6r

Take that information with a pinch of salt. ;-)

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I think that just writing lcl or vcl is too unspecific. Google for lcl / vcl. In the first page there is almost nothing about what you are actually tring to say with lcl / vcl. Also see the news about those terms...

That's why in TIOBE they search for "Pascal Programming Language" for example.

Here is an attempt to do a better search:

http://google.com/trends?q=Gtk%2C+Borland+Delphi%2C+Free+Pascal%2C+Lazarus&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=2

"Free Pascal" searches staying more or less the same and "Borland Delphi" searches falling stopless.

Lazarus as a search term seams to fall, which is incoherent with the download numbers. The amount of noise is too big. The problem is that any further specialization of the search term, like "Lazarus IDE" makes the searches too small to show a graph. And there is also the biblical figure named Lazarus...

I also added Gtk to compare. Gtk is a pretty unique name, so I think that the graphs for Gtk, Free Pascal and Borland Delphi are correct. The Lazarus graph is wrong due to too much noise.

2008/6/18 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho :

I think that just writing lcl or vcl is too unspecific. Google for lcl

Hence the reason for the smiley face in my original message.... I never knew about this feature of Google, until I found a post comparing delphi, ruby, python and c#

http://google.com/trends?q=delphi%2C+python%2C+ruby%2C+c%23&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=2

What's cool is that you can drill down to country and even regions in that country. :)

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- Graeme -

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Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

Hence the reason for the smiley face in my original message.... I

Oh, I didn't read that last line =P

I never knew about this feature of Google, until I found a post comparing delphi, ruby, python and c#

And celebrating your great finding you had nothing better to do than to spam? Or what exactly has this to do with lazarus?

2008/6/18 Lord Satan :

And celebrating your great finding you had nothing better to do than to spam? Or what exactly has this to do with lazarus?

Wow, is somebody having a bad day? As a matter of fact, I did mention LCL (Lazarus Component Library) and I did mention VCL (Delphi's Visual Component Library) which is what Lazarus is trying to clone. So even though the pretty graph might be a bit skewed, as Felipe was kind enough to highlight, I had all good intentions in showing how well and how popular LCL is becoming.

Have a nice day Lord Satan! ;-)

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Thanks.
You are a very predictable guy. That made my day.
Best wishes to you.

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