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> Recently Crystal shocked the world when it rose from 60th place to 32nd place in the Tiobe index in a mere month Meteoric! Because we all know the the Tiobe

> Recently Crystal shocked the world when it rose from 60th place to 32nd place in the Tiobe index in a mere month Meteoric! Because we all know the the Tiobe index is incredibly accurate. Would have been nice to see some code examples, rather than just handwavey bullets points that you could write about nearly every up-and-coming programming language.

notacoward 8y ago
Also, "meteoric rise" is kind of silly. That's not how meteors work.
- ModernMech 8y ago
  Meteors fall, so they must also rise. Because physics?
- gilgoomesh 8y ago
  A meteoric rise means a rise up into the sky. Meteoros is Latin and means "to raise up", usually into the sky. Hence "meteorology" which is the study of the sky and "meteors" which are bright lights in the sky.
  - vignesh_m 8y ago
    TIL, thanks
  - notacoward 8y ago
    "Well actually ..." but still no. People don't say "meteorological rise" do they? They're not talking about gradual lifting, or about eyes. They're talking about a meteor. That's a real English word for a real physical thing, which by definition is approaching the earth - i.e. falling. Even if there's some etymological relationship to rising, the dominant relationship between the metaphor and the thing to which it refers in practically any listener's mind is all screwed up. Learn a better phrase, or even better make one up, instead of rationalizing one that's broken.
  - detaro 8y ago
    I believe "meteoric" mainly refers to the speed, not to the sky-reference.
geezerjay 8y ago
> Because we all know the the Tiobe index is incredibly accurate. More importantly, the TIOBE index is just a web noise indicator. A dedicated marketing guy focused on dumping the project's keywords throughout the WWW is all it takes to manipulate the ranking.
ajnin 8y ago
On the TIOBE index homepage it seems to be currently (June 2018) listed in the 61st place.

notacoward 8y ago

Also, "meteoric rise" is kind of silly. That's not how meteors work.

ModernMech 8y ago
Meteors fall, so they must also rise. Because physics?
gilgoomesh 8y ago
A meteoric rise means a rise up into the sky. Meteoros is Latin and means "to raise up", usually into the sky. Hence "meteorology" which is the study of the sky and "meteors" which are bright lights in the sky.
- vignesh_m 8y ago
  TIL, thanks
- notacoward 8y ago
  "Well actually ..." but still no. People don't say "meteorological rise" do they? They're not talking about gradual lifting, or about eyes. They're talking about a meteor. That's a real English word for a real physical thing, which by definition is approaching the earth - i.e. falling. Even if there's some etymological relationship to rising, the dominant relationship between the metaphor and the thing to which it refers in practically any listener's mind is all screwed up. Learn a better phrase, or even better make one up, instead of rationalizing one that's broken.
- detaro 8y ago
  I believe "meteoric" mainly refers to the speed, not to the sky-reference.

geezerjay 8y ago

> Because we all know the the Tiobe index is incredibly accurate. More importantly, the TIOBE index is just a web noise indicator. A dedicated marketing guy focused on dumping the project's keywords throughout the WWW is all it takes to manipulate the ranking.

ajnin 8y ago

On the TIOBE index homepage it seems to be currently (June 2018) listed in the 61st place.