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First line of the article: "C# had the highest growth in popularity this year (2.3 %), and Python the highest growth this decade (8%)". One of their key metric
by jasonlotito 14y ago
First line of the article: "C# had the highest growth in popularity this year (2.3 %), and Python the highest growth this decade (8%)". One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth.
- maratd 14y ago> One of their key metrics to determine popularity is growth. I would think one of the key metrics in determining popularity would be popularity ...
- jasonlotito 14y agoIt is. I'd think that's fairly clear and obvious from the languages they were comparing.
- pohl 14y agoI find it hard to believe that some newer, smaller language communities did not have a higher growth rate.
- jasonlotito 14y ago"One of," not "only."
- Drakim 14y agoWouldn't a language that goes from 0 users to 1 user within this year easily win this sort of measurement?
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoObligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/1102/ http://xkcd.com/1102/
- gtani 14y agooblig. Zed shaw http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html
- S4M 14y agoThey must be taking only established languages. Otherwise Clojure, Scala or Go would probably beat them all in term of growth.
- pcarbonn 14y agoNot really. The language of year is the one with the largest growth of "popularity share". C# has gone from 8.2% to 10.5% this year, while your presumed language would go from 0% to 0.0000001 % : not a big increase, really.