>>>>>>No company is continuing "VFP".
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>>>>>LOL
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>>>>I don't think to many (if any) companies are bothering to create NEW VFP applications (why would you??) ... but there are ones that are keeping legacy systems alive. Each year this number dwindles down more and more though.
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>>>Can you share where you get these figures from? In which countries / continents?
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>>Well I'm speaking of just the USA. You can kinda tell just by looking at the jobs that are available. If you look at places like monster.com and dice.com you'll see that at any given time there are only a handful of VFP jobs - and generally those seem to be temp jobs to keep a VFP app running until it's replaced.
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>OK, fair enough
>
>Let me share some facts about today's VFP market, drawn from the Google Analytics of foxincloud.com.
>Let's assume that people visiting foxincloud.com wish to expand on some existing VFP application rather than rewriting it in something else (time frames are arbitrary).
>
>Aug. 2011 - Sept 2012
>North America: 1,872 visitors (16.12%)
>South America: 2,120 visitors (18.25%)
>Whole world: 11,615 visitors (100%)
>
>Aug. 2014 - Sept 2015
>North America: 1,662 visitors (12.72%)
>South America: 3,006 visitors (23.0%)
>Whole world: 13,067 visitors (100%)
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>Evolution
>North America: -11 % (your good)
>South America: +40 %
>Whole world: +12%
>
>Now let's compare to some other popular platforms:
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>- .net - http://trelford.com/blog/post/peak.aspx
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>Microsoft’s C# programming language first appeared in 2000, over 15 years ago, that’s a long time in tech.
>Every month or so there’s a “Leaving .Net” articles, the last one I bumped into was “The collapse of the .net ecosystem” from Justin Angel
>
>According to the graphs in this blog post, volume of employment has been divided by 3 in 5 years.
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>- ruby on rail: http://blog.jaredfriedman.com/2015/09/15/why-i-wouldnt-use-rails-for-a-new-company/
>Why I wouldn’t use rails for a new company
>
>Who's the winner now? NodeJS
>
>What is exactly nodeJS?
>- Is it based on a brand new shiny language? NO - based on good old JavaScript ES5 that has not changed for 15 years
>- Is it a super giant library built by a 1rst class software vendor such as Oracle or Microsoft? NO - it's just the accumulation of open source module contributions with strict rules and open access on GitHub
>- Is it based on a respected, rocket science language or system? NO - JavaScript has been despised for years as a language for low-level front end developers, AKA handymen
>- Does it have 20 years of presence on the market? NO, started in 2010, grows 100% each year
>- So, what exactly are the benefits of NodeJS? Just the same as we appreciate in VFP: do anything web-related with a single language (JavaScript), built by a strongly organized user community
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>Every one may now draw conclusions of his own.

No insight of COBOL, FORTRAN? Just kidding.