Toiby; #14 an rising

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Wed Nov 7 15:35:45 PST 2007


Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> The month-to-month variations of one slot or two up or down are 
>> obviously meaningless.
> 
> That's what I mean by fixation.  Here's an example: 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/announce/tiobe_D_remains_at_14_but_is_losing_ground_for_the_second_month_8868.html 
> 
> 
> My impression of the D community is that they consider themselves 
> hard-core engineer types.  I see TIOBE mentioned far too often around 
> here to be consistent with that image.  As somebody who follows D from 
> the outside, it's a negative.
> 
>> But the fact that D is in the top 20 and has been for a while, and 
>> that Scala is not, says something to me.
> 
> I'll grant you that's a positive for D, but what I'm talking about is 
> fixation on TIOBE, not just a general awareness that it has made it into 
> the top 20.  My personal opinion is that if you build a great language 
> and community around it that stuff like TIOBE and the network effect 
> will take care of itself.

I don't care enough about TIOBE to ever bother going there of my own 
initiative, so I'm glad people post the monthly updates here.  Kind of 
like listening to the stock report.  Day to day doesn't much matter, but 
it's fun to keep your eye on it.

--bb



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