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TIOBE is garbage. It is primarily based on google search hits. Red Monk's ratings are based on github and stackoverflow (which Clojurists actually don't use muc
by puredanger 7y ago
TIOBE is garbage. It is primarily based on google search hits. Red Monk's ratings are based on github and stackoverflow (which Clojurists actually don't use much) and typically has Clojure around 25, which I think it is a defensible ranking. Best estimates of devs using Clojure are 20k-50k (based on multiple sources, some public, some private).
- ilikehurdles 7y agoWow, TIOBE has Object Pascal, Assembly, D, and PERL in the top 20. Also, MatLab over Objective-C. Meanwhile, Typescript is at 46, well below Julia, COBOL, Ada, and Rust (don't get me wrong, great language, but I'd be surprised if it was more widely adopted than Typescript). Its method for ranking seems problematic.
- ChrisRackauckas 7y agoIt has been shown that TIOBE tends to not be very robust. If you change the metric from searches of "X programming" to "X language", you can can swing the results of many languages up or down by 20 spots. https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2019/09/16/tiobe-blog.html https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2019/09/16/tiobe-blog.html