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As Please Stop Citing TIOBE (https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/ https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/) points out, languages do have random flu
by testdelacc1 9mo ago
As Please Stop Citing TIOBE (https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/ https://nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/) points out, languages do have random fluctuations. It’s garbage data, so this is unsurprising. Between 2016-17 Java dropped 42% and C dropped 62%. That indicated nothing then, because they both promptly recovered. It was just noise.
Don’t take TIOBE seriously. You’ll feel better.
Look at the other suggested metrics - Google trends, GitHub repos, Developer surveys etc. None of these are perfect, but they’re more meaningful than TIOBE.
- arccy 9mo agoWell ruby has been in decline for the past 10 years... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-12-02%202026-01-02&q=%2Fm%2F06ff5&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-12-02%202... and it's not even worthy of being compared to python, the line is so insignificant that it looks flat https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-12-02%202026-01-02&q=%2Fm%2F06ff5,python&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-12-02%202...
- testdelacc1 9mo agoYeah that’s brutal. Thanks for sharing.