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> Without details on how this list is compiled, I think it's pretty useless. "Since there are many questions about the way the TIOBE index is assembled, a spe

• sho 9y ago
  Thanks for that. OK, that indeed confirms the list's uselessness. TL;DR: It counts all the hits on N search engines for any language with its own wikipedia page. Obviously that will bias towards older languages with a large cumulative number of mentions. I don't see it as useful for evaluating the current popularity of languages.
  • zzzcpan 9y ago
    Popularity is too ambiguous, current popularity even more so. Any index can be considered a popularity index. TIOBE is more like a long term impact kind of index. It's good enough if you want to understand familiarity with the language or penetration of the language. If you want to know which languages people hear about currently, check out PYPL index [1]. And of course job market is an index of languages used today. More insight can be extracted from combining metrics, like adoption speed index. [1] http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html