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According to TIOBE, Fortran is more popular than Google's Dart and Mozilla's Rust. Not to mention Kotlin, Lisp, and Erlang.

• GolDDranks 8y ago
  Fortran used to be more popular. However, TIOBE is a lacking indicator, as stated here: http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html (do a in-page-search with "Why is PYPL so different from TIOBE ?") Some other indicators such as Redmonk ( https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/20/language-rankings-1-19/ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/20/language-rankings-1-1... ) show that both Dart and Rust are more popular than Fortran. (Although each of them have their own set of biases.)
  • Nydhal 8y ago
    I think you mean lagging indicator.
    • rbanffy 8y ago
      Any sufficiently lagging indicator is also a lacking indicator.
    • aepiepaey 8y ago
      While the page they link to uses "lagging", "lacking" actually seems to fit better with the context it's used in there: The paragraph it's used in ("Why is PYPL so different from TIOBE ?") seems to argue that TIOBE is lacking, not lagging.