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I find it really hard to understand why TIOBE keeps being brought up as an authorative source when time and time again people demonstrate its inaccuracy. Could
by eliben 16y ago
I find it really hard to understand why TIOBE keeps being brought up as an authorative source when time and time again people demonstrate its inaccuracy. Could it be just because there's no serious alternative?
Has anyone considered a more serious method of comparing programming language popularity?
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- fauigerzigerk 16y agoI think your answer is right, which leads to the rather shocking conclusion that something that is without alternative can never be useless or braindead enough to be ignored. It's like a piece of dog shit in the snow.
- davidw 16y agoAs the guy behind http://langpop.com http://langpop.com I wonder too. I don't think my results are perfect, but I think they're a bit better. In any case though, no survey of this type is going to be entirely 'accurate'. To be 'accurate', you'd have to follow around millions of programmers for a few years and see what they're reading, writing and talking about, at home, at work, and with friends. So I do the best with the data I can get. Another thing to consider is what 'popular' means. You could consider both 'velocity' (current use) and 'acceleration' (increase in usage). Cobol for instance, is widely used in some environments, but has no acceleration. Java has a lot of the former, and still has quite a bit of use in new projects. Something like Ruby is not widely deployed, but more popular for new web projects.