On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 09:09:20 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
At least it shows the characteristic spikes for each language and the related searches look reasonable. But the popularity of D pre-2007 looks odd, and with such a bias it's impossible to read anything out of the more recent numbers (in terms of absolute value) without wishful thinking.
Yes, I think counting significant libraries/framworks and github activity provide better absolute measurements for comparable languages (Go, Rust, D), but doesn't work for enterprise languages.
Still, the trends says something about the future of competing languages, so if one want to lay down a strategy it can be useful. And it also can tell us something about what events leads to increased/falling interest.
