Your coworker would be a fool if he makes decision based on the weighted number of search hits for XXX programming, which is what the tiobe index is. The github index gives you a good estimated of the popularity of languages in the open source community here: https://github.com/languages Looks much better :) Of course this is as bogus as the tiobe index - but the results are more in favor of Ruby :)
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks everyone for the comments! The Tiobe Ruby chart is in fact the one > that my co-worker was referring to since it shows Ruby on a downward slope. > The Tiobe index doesn't seem very useful or accurate if you ask me. You've > definitely given me a lot of ammunition to defend Ruby! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/rRRjOC1XQ3MJ. > > 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. 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/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
