TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 16:58:15 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Saturday, 9 January 2016 at 14:01:20 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> Copy protection. Anti-piracy measure in hardware.
>
> Heh, the web had none until very recently, and that's something 
> most businesses don't use.

If you run a critical part of an application on the server, then 
piracy becomes more difficult. Key example is online games.

> And there's some paper map out there that has all that and is 
> up to date? :)

Paper and web ;)

> Right, my original question was what changed in the tech so 
> that you're now impressed?  Since you don't name anything, 
> doesn't sound like anything in the tech itself caused the 
> change in your impression.

JavaScript performance, lots of new standards implemented across 
the board, ranging from offline storage to 3D and animation apis.