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Interesting note from TIOBE about F# just yesterday: March Headline: All time high for F# at position 11 Microsoft's programming language F# is about to sneak

Interesting note from TIOBE about F# just yesterday: March Headline: All time high for F# at position 11 Microsoft's programming language F# is about to sneak into the top 10. It is not clear why F# is gaining popularity. Possible reasons might be the F# web-programming framework WebSharper and the promotional work of the F# Software Foundation as Tomas Petricek (author of "F# Deep Dives") stated in an interview about 2 weeks ago.

sago 11y ago
Except that the April data is out now, and it dropped to 14, so 'about to sneak into the top 10' seems a bit premature, in hindsight.
- igouy 11y ago
  Except that #14 is for April 2014. The Tiobe score for F# improved by +0.23% (which might be from March 2015 to April 2015). afaict the data tables for previous months are unavailable, and not recoverable from the Internet Archive because of the way the data is displayed.
  - aurora72 11y ago
    Yes they are not recoverable but try google cache. Actually I've used google cache to bring back the headline article.
- aurora72 11y ago
  Well, they basically concern themselves with the ranking and when an unpopular lang hits an historical high or low, they make it into headlines. Just for the record, this month's headline (for the sake of Scala's position) April Headline: Java back at the top! Java is back at the top of the TIOBE index after one and half year. Androids ongoing success is probably the major reason for Java's revival. The Java language has been in slow decline for many years now, mainly due to its waning foot print in the enterprise server back end market. Since October last year the increasing demand on Java Android programming has exceeded this decline, thus pushing Java more than 3% during this period. Another interesting move this month concerns Scala. The functional programming language jumps to position 25 after having been between position 30 and 50 for many years. Scala seems to be ready to enter the top 20 for the first time in history.

sago 11y ago

Except that the April data is out now, and it dropped to 14, so 'about to sneak into the top 10' seems a bit premature, in hindsight.

igouy 11y ago
Except that #14 is for April 2014. The Tiobe score for F# improved by +0.23% (which might be from March 2015 to April 2015). afaict the data tables for previous months are unavailable, and not recoverable from the Internet Archive because of the way the data is displayed.
- aurora72 11y ago
  Yes they are not recoverable but try google cache. Actually I've used google cache to bring back the headline article.
aurora72 11y ago
Well, they basically concern themselves with the ranking and when an unpopular lang hits an historical high or low, they make it into headlines. Just for the record, this month's headline (for the sake of Scala's position) April Headline: Java back at the top! Java is back at the top of the TIOBE index after one and half year. Androids ongoing success is probably the major reason for Java's revival. The Java language has been in slow decline for many years now, mainly due to its waning foot print in the enterprise server back end market. Since October last year the increasing demand on Java Android programming has exceeded this decline, thus pushing Java more than 3% during this period. Another interesting move this month concerns Scala. The functional programming language jumps to position 25 after having been between position 30 and 50 for many years. Scala seems to be ready to enter the top 20 for the first time in history.