D enters Tiobe top 20

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 02:08:28 UTC, Gregor Mückl wrote:
> If you take other indices like the more complex Redmonk index 
> that takes its data from Stackoverflow and Github and is thus 
> biased towards open source projects, you get totally different 
> results. For example, the Redmonk index ranks rust pretty high. 
> This shows how arbitrary these rankings are in the end.

Redmonk is flawed as well, of course. A language with worse 
documentation, is more difficult to use or appeal more to 
beginners (like PhP) will have a stronger presence on 
Stackoverflow...

Github is probably the better metric, but counting number of 
projects is silly. Some languages have a culture of miniature 
repositories. Others have lots of forking.  But yeah, if you did 
static analysis on all the source code on Github then that could 
measure something reasonable.

Also the counting on Github seems to be approximate. I get ±10% 
in repeated searches their web interface, e.g. sometimes 7000 
hits, sometimes 8000 hits…

Searches on github:

2k language:nim
8k language:d
10k language:julia
23k language:go
43k language:rust
759k language:c
880k language:c#
890k language:c++
3400k language:java