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Interesting to see how popular languages really are outside the HN bubble. Scala has always been fairly niche (I believe Twitter was soley responsibly in bringi

Interesting to see how popular languages really are outside the HN bubble. Scala has always been fairly niche (I believe Twitter was soley responsibly in bringing it the lime light) its also cool to see that Go which has been riding the hype train this month ranks below Dart, Coldfusion, and Visual FoxPro. In the HN bubble one might ask "is Perl really important", which came in at #9.

MetaCosm 13y ago
TL;DR: TIOBE is a horrible way to decide if something is important. TIOBE is a fun conversation generator, but hardly anything to be taken seriously. In 2004, when Google swapped an algorithm, a bunch of TIOBE "rankings" swung massively. Back then they only used Google (the rankings are generated from search engine results, more results == better). Now they use multiple engines, but the list of issues that make it crap persist. - Older languages like perl, have years of postings and pages to draw from ... even if many of them are wrong with current perl. - Better documented languages generate less noise in terms of pages - Languages with a higher base engineer level (lisp) tend to generate less pages of noise - The system is very easily gamed by anyone with the motivation (not sure if anyone cares) - Communities that rally around good answers rather than repeat themselves generate less noise Noise == Google Results == Rank