D on top of Hacker News!

[I love Ice Cream]

On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 16:05:24 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
> On 05/06/2018 3:56 AM, I love Ice Cream wrote:
>> On Monday, 4 June 2018 at 11:14:42 UTC, bauss wrote:
>>> On Sunday, 3 June 2018 at 17:40:46 UTC, I love Ice Cream 
>>> wrote:
>>>>> Is D really a top 20 language? I don't remember seeing it 
>>>>> anywhere close to the top 20.
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ has them in 31
>>>>
>>>> Top comment is kind of depressing.
>>>
>>> Tiobe is based on Google searches, so it's not relevant 
>>> anymore.
>> 
>> Since when is Google not relevant?
>
> Google modifies search results per person/client and can hide 
> results out right if it chooses to (unconfirmed, but its a good 
> guess).
>
> When it comes to analysis it does not qualify as a research 
> source anymore. It is merely a starting point for your research 
> and does not play a major role.

It seems you guys are undercutting the results because you don't 
like them:

> The index covers searches in Google, Google Blogs, MSN, Yahoo!, 
> Baidu, Wikipedia and YouTube.