February 2017 UPDATE!

But first, for context - quoting myself from [the original post (Dec 
2014)](https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/671#3637):

> Get More Sites Mentioning Nim: **I recently e-mailed maintainers of the TIOBE 
> proglang popularity index about Nim. The response, quoted below, shows the 
> arbitrary criteria they use**...

Quoting their response from 2014:

> Thanks for your feedback on our TIOBE index. **We don't track Nim/Nimrod 
> yet.** The reason is that it is not sufficiently popular yet to justify 
> adding to our monitor list. Please check +"Nim programming" and +"Nimrod 
> programming" **in Google. It hasn't reached 10,000 hits yet.** I hope that 
> this answers your question.

And so the [Feb 2017 edition [snapshot]](https://archive.is/hkrqN) of the 
[TIOBE Index](http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/) mentions the following:

> **Olaf Buddenhagen and some others wondered why Nim was not part of the TIOBE 
> index yet. Indeed, Nim qualifies for the index. It enters the TIOBE index at 
> position 129 this month.**

Progress! 

We'll see if [my prediction](https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/2660#16470) about Nim 
entering the Top 100 in 2018 will hold. 

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