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I like how one commenter put it over on Lobste.rs (https://lobste.rs/s/fdcpy3/fish_shell_be_rewritten_rust#c_smjdpz https://lobste.rs/s/fdcpy3/fish_shell_be_rew
by throwaway894345 4y ago
I like how one commenter put it over on Lobste.rs (https://lobste.rs/s/fdcpy3/fish_shell_be_rewritten_rust#c_smjdpz https://lobste.rs/s/fdcpy3/fish_shell_be_rewritten_rust#c_sm...):
> TIOBE has +/- 50% error margin and even if the data wasn’t unusable, it’s misrepresented (measuring mentions picked by search engine algorithms over a historical corpus, not just current year, not actual usage). It’s so bad that I think it’s wrong to even mention it with “a grain of salt”. It’s a developer’s horoscope.
> TIOBE thinks C popularity has halved one year and tripled next year. It thinks a niche db query language from a commercial product discontinued in 2007 is more popular in 2023 than TypeScript. I can’t emphasize enough how garbage this data is, even the top 10. It requires overlooking so many grave errors that it exists only to reinforce preexisting beliefs.
- shaklee3 4y agoagain, use a better source if you don't like it.
- throwaway894345 4y agoI prefer to avoid horoscopes altogether.