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What’s the point of these lists? I feel like everyone can predict the members of the top 10 or so and the tail is too noisy to be taken seriously. Essentially t
by ilikehurdles 4y ago
What’s the point of these lists? I feel like everyone can predict the members of the top 10 or so and the tail is too noisy to be taken seriously. Essentially the bucket of metrics used to measure the top 10 of each category is chosen such that the obvious choices are a part of it, but those same metrics get pretty bad at detecting any meaningful ordering of the bottom, say, 20 or 30.
- ncmncm 4y agoIf the numbers were trustworthy, it would offer a measure of your career prospects after developing a competence in the language. Of course, the SO and TIOBE numbers are very much worse than useless for this purpose. Relative numbers outside the top 10 or 20 will of course be entirely meaningless because of small sample size.