On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 03:26:37 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
d up from 31 in march. Just below scala, sas, and fortran. No
doubt noisy, and possibly news about Andrei leaving Facebook
had an influence. They changed the algorithm to be more
tolerant of noise, which has had an impact on the results
(which might also be a hint about the degree of precision in
such an exercise) but don't say how that affected D, if at all.
Really, TIOBE doesn't mean much, but it is interesting to see
that D is _way_ above Rust (which is barely in the top 50), and
Go didn't make the top 50 at all. I typically hear way more about
Go and Rust from folks outside of the newsgroup than I ever hear
about D. So, if anything, that may just show how unreliable TIOBE
is as a real measurement of language popularity or usage, but it
is interesting that we're that high up in comparison to the newer
languages that we usually get compared with.
- Jonathan M Davis
