On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Jeff Nowakowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/12/2011 11:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> >> Accuracy (i.e. figuring the "right" ranking) is probably indeed low, but >> Tiobe's methods are a reasonable proxy for a language's presence. I see >> the increase of D's Tiobe rank not as a surprise or some random >> artifact, but a reflection of the strong progress in the past months. >> > > D is prone to overcounting because it's common name matches lots of > unrelated stuff, including things like 3-D programming. The Tiobe folks > can't be counted on to come up with an accurate measure to filter it out. > The latest spike could be for any number of reasons. You might as well be > reading tea leaves. > > People were scoffing at Scala at number #50, but in my experience it's just > as mainstream than D is, and very likely much more. Want some stats? > Martin's book on Amazon is #17,254. Andrei's book is #159,672. There are > over a dozen Scala books on the market. Stack overflow shows 5,606 tagged > with "scala", and 430 questions tagged with "d". > > Lame marketing, Andrei. But hey, it works, right? > The lame marketing is when programming languages need big corporate money and power to get them to any level of popularity. Did you forget what happened with Google Go? Not a language that's any better than D, but because of Google now everyone knows about it. No different with Scala, Java, etc. When was the last time we had something like Scalathon for D with corporate sponsors such as Google?
