Python scripting language use has increased by 45% since Spring 2008 according the an Evans Data North American Development Survey. Only 13% of developers used Python before Google announced its App Engine platform in Spring 2008, which at the time only supported Python, but that number has increased to 20.3% today. Other scripting language use remained relatively constant, with only small gains or losses in popularity among languages such as Ruby, PHP, Perl and Actionscript.

The results of a survey by Evans Data shows that use of the Ruby scripting language has increased by 40% amongst North American software developers during the last year.  Fourteen percent of developers in this region use Ruby some part of the time, up from 10% who used it in 2008. Additionally, 20% of developers expect to use it in the coming year.