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Please, please, stop with this TIOBE nonsense. This index is a joke - can't someone with a burning desire for a weekend project create an open-sourced index web

by eliben 15y ago

Please, please, stop with this TIOBE nonsense. This index is a joke - can't someone with a burning desire for a weekend project create an open-sourced index website and engage with other hackers to incrementally improve it?

draegtun 15y ago
The Transparent Language Popularity Index is an opensource alternative: http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/ http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/
- spitfire 15y ago
  People are still using Eiffeil and Overon? All the other results I believe (Even clipper and module-2), but that is a bridge too far.
  - danvet 15y ago
    It's used to teach CS undergrads programming basics at ETH Zürich. At least a few years ago ...
    - UK-AL 15y ago
      Not surprised since Overon was invented there...
      - pjmlp 15y ago
        It's called Oberon!
- eliben 15y ago
  Thanks!
davidw 15y ago
LangPop.com is a lot better than TIOBE, but I'm not sure about open sourcing it... I'd kind of like to sell it for a bit of money and get out of running it (which I haven't actually been doing much of lately). The one thing I can't stand about TIOBE is not the index itself - it is what it is - but the breathless announcements about so and so overtaking this or that, like it's a horse race.
petdance 15y ago
But why bother to improve it? Why is the question of "What programming language is most popular" one that needs an answer?