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What ranking of language popularity do you think is more accurate than Tiobe?

• kodfodrasz 10y ago
  I think all are irrelevant. They can help to give an overview on popularity, maybe, but are not in any ways sources to consier for a decision, like (all numbers are made up) the following example: Oh, Java is 10% more popular than Python, but both are going down, while JavaScript is more popular, and going up, so I need to write my System in JavaScript to have cheap and good labour to help on the job! I beleive these rankings, if used for anything more serious than having some perspective on long-time trends for someone not following the industry closely are useless, and usually are used in arguments like kids in the kindergarten usually have: - My dad is stronger than yours! - Yes, but my dad has a red car! What do you want to use such metrics for? Are you a decision maker? Then you should not rely on this, but on the facts that cheap labour is usually freshmen from the uni, where java, c, c++, c# and Python are usually thought (and lisp at some palces), so you should stick to these. For other perspectives, this is irrelevant: If you want to know what language you need to know to get a job simply write a web scraper in your favourite language, and analyze a job marketplace portal. You will have fun, learn something, and get some insight on demand. Ultimately it is not the languages that matter in my experience. If you need to get sh1t done Quick, just stick to what you already know well. If you want to know what language is the best fit for a task, then you need to do other Research, a magic google trends, or a github filetype histogram will not tell you the truth.