TIOBE February 2016.... 15 ?!

[rsw0x via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 19:28:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
Grøstad wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 19:16:00 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote:
>> I take the TIOBE as good PR, because it always appearing on 
>> Reddit and people talk about for good or worst.
>
> Whenever D is making a marketing push you get newbies in the 
> forums complaining about lacking libraries, lacking IDE, 
> lacking tooling. Then they leave, most likely with a bad 
> impression, because they had higher expectations.
>
> If people believe that D is as popular as Swift, which is the 
> current TIOBE ranking, they also expect the eco system of 
> Swift. Which D cannot deliver.
>
> Yes, I am pessimistic when it comes to FUD, it leads to 
> resentment.
>
> What the D community needs is users with realistic expectations 
> and goals.

None of those things happen without users, and being high on 
tiobe gets users.
The D community is stretched incredibly thin already.