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Different methodologies. SO's most loved metric is % of people using the language who want ot keep using it. If you look at the most popular languages (as in us
by jstx1 4y ago
Different methodologies. SO's most loved metric is % of people using the language who want ot keep using it. If you look at the most popular languages (as in used by most people) in SO's survey, the top 3 are JavaScript, HTML/CSS and Python.
As far as IEEE's methodology - it's not even described which makes the whole article kind of pointless.
- Jtsummers 4y agohttps://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-methods https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-methods It's also described in the original post, but the above goes into the sources used.
- jstx1 4y agoThis doesn't explain the methodology though, it just lists the sources. I want to know what it means for Python to be 100 and for Java to be 70.22.
- Jtsummers 4y agoThey have three sets of weights to adjust the scores across nine different metrics. Here is their 2021 version which did the same but let you alter the weights yourself (would be nice if they'd still offered it this year, but they had their reasons not to): https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages/ You can see the likely weights they used for the three rankings they show this year. As to what it means 100 vs 70.22 means, it means that Python got a higher score under that ranking. It showed up in more places.