On Tuesday, 5 June 2018 at 20:15:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Tuesday, June 05, 2018 15:09:56 Dejan Lekic via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Sunday, 3 June 2018 at 17:40:46 UTC, I love Ice Cream wrote:
>> Is D really a top 20 language? I don't remember seeing it
>> anywhere close to the top 20.
>>
>> https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ has them in 31
>
> Top comment is kind of depressing.
The right place to look is https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/d/
I agree with other comments regarding TIOBE - they are
constantly changing how they do statistics so they are not
relevant source at all. Just look where Kotlin is there and
that should pretty much tell you everything. I know at least
10 large companies that are moving from Java/Scala to Kotlin,
yet Kotlin is at the bottom 50 table... Ridiculous...
The TIOBE has never been a measurement of how much any given
language is used. At best, it's been a measurement of which
languages folks have been searching for. That can tell you
something, but you have to understand what it's measuring to
have any clue what it does tell you. And of course, because of
how difficult it is to measure search results for a particular
language, they keep changing their criteria. The result is that
while the tiobe index may be interesting, it must be taken with
a very large grain of salt - and that's without getting into
any discussions of how valid it is or isn't to use search
results from google to do the measuring.
- Jonathan M Davis
And all of the other metrics done by other groups that was
provided that paints a similar picture?
http://githut.info/
http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
http://sogrady-media.redmonk.com/sogrady/files/2018/03/lang.rank_.118.png
https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2017-top-programming-languages
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2016
I'm not really intending to crap on anyone here. It's just the
dismissal of a collection of data all pointing towards one
particular conclusion is a bit strange. It seems like the
interest in D is going down not up. I mean it could have a
renaissance, but I'd imagine some work would have to be put into
that to make it happen.