TIOBE october

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 7 October 2015 at 10:55:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> 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

Yes.  TIOBE probably wrong about popularity, and although it is 
in our favour, it's probably a mistake to point to TIOBE, and 
indeed nobody here does.