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TIOBE is not particularly accurate, but that doesn't mean that counting Github projects is better.
by JoachimSchipper 16y ago
TIOBE is not particularly accurate, but that doesn't mean that counting Github projects is better.
- davidw 16y agoGithub is still hugely biased towards Ruby, which is one reason I still haven't included it in http://www.langpop.com http://www.langpop.com
- dimmuborgir 16y agoHow is it any different from Google Code (which you've included) which is heavily biased towards C?
- davidw 16y agoGoogle's Code search is heavily biased because there's a crapload of C code out there, which makes sense, given that it's been around for nearly 40 years and is used as the basis for... well, pretty much everything, including many other programming languages. Github's bias is based on the early adopter Ruby guys climbing on board quickly.
- rmason 16y agoSome languages have a community developed site for open source and popular mailing lists or forums for questions. So GitHub and StackExchange by themselves are a poor measure of language popularity.
- GFischer 16y agoFor example, I program in SUN's Forte's 4GL TOOL programming language (sadly, our legacy system is built on that), it's a dead language, but it probably counts for the other 4GL searches or results. And I doubt you'll find it on Github. Same for the local Genexus 4GL . Edit: it's also English-biased. Genexus 4GL returns over 77.000 results, much more than listed. This blog post seems worse researched than TIOBE's index.
- old_sound 16y agoGenexus the Uruguayan Genexus? I've never thought this will be ever mentioned in HN :D
- GFischer 16y agoYep, that one. It was actually a keynote by Nicolás Jodal (co-CEO of Artech) that directed me here !!! I wonder why it doesn't gain traction in the US, but I digress.. It's not a tool that would be liked by the HN community, as hackers like flexibility and under-the-hood access.