TIOBE october

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 03:26:37 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>
> d up from 31 in march.  Just below scala, sas, and fortran.  No 
> doubt noisy, and possibly news about Andrei leaving Facebook 
> had an influence.  They changed the algorithm to be more 
> tolerant of noise, which has had an impact on the results 
> (which might also be a hint about the degree of precision in 
> such an exercise) but don't say how that affected D, if at all.

Really, TIOBE doesn't mean much, but it is interesting to see 
that D is _way_ above Rust (which is barely in the top 50), and 
Go didn't make the top 50 at all. I typically hear way more about 
Go and Rust from folks outside of the newsgroup than I ever hear 
about D. So, if anything, that may just show how unreliable TIOBE 
is as a real measurement of language popularity or usage, but it 
is interesting that we're that high up in comparison to the newer 
languages that we usually get compared with.

- Jonathan M Davis