IANAS (I am not a statistician), but on GitHub [ https://github.com/languages/] Scala has 385 recently updated repositories, while Go has only 110. Given that both languages belong to the same open source realm, and how Google Code is in agreement with GitHub, that alone is enough to suggest Tiobe's conclusions have to be taken with a grain of salt. Go does not appear to be particular trending compared to Scala!
Seems to me Tiobe's main problem is how it mixes long-term and short-term data points, and how it arrives at a conclusion which is impossible to verify. Hence, it remains far more interesting to me what developers have actually been using the last 3 months, than what the total accumulated usage amounts to. Apart from public source code repo's (which fails to account for closed-source development), publisher data is another objective indicator that's interesting to follow (I.e. http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/state-of-the-computer-book-mar-22.html). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/ArwEv1eUwrsJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
