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The TIOBE index says Perl is currently the #11 most popular programming language (up from #30 a year ago). ref: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.
by oofbey 1y ago
The TIOBE index says Perl is currently the #11 most popular programming language (up from #30 a year ago). ref: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Now, I don't actually believe this, because that puts Perl way ahead of Rust (currently at #18). So the big thing I'm taking away from this little research post is that I no longer trust the Tiobe index. Too bad - it felt pretty reliable for a long time.
- leejo 1y agoWhich is more believable or surprising: a) there is probably several orders of magnitude more Perl code running out there in the wild than Rust? b) the TIOBE index was ever meaningful?
- oofbey 1y agoI'm sure (a) is true. But TIOBE is supposed to be some balance between "total mass of existing code" and "current interest in new code".
- petdance 1y agoI suggest that there are no meaningful conclusions to be gleaned from the TIOBE rankings.