On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 10:55:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
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
Yes. TIOBE probably wrong about popularity, and although it is
in our favour, it's probably a mistake to point to TIOBE, and
indeed nobody here does.
