RedMonk language rankings June 15, 2017

[Martin Tschierschke via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 09:51:37 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:
>> They are comparing the old, newer and newest ( in that order ).
>
> Yes, that was confusing too. But it makes no sense to plot 
> ranking on a linear scale, they should plot actual numbers. The 
> plot they provide says nothing meaningful about the relative 
> position of the various languages IMO.
>
> Unfortunately for "D", it is also a language that is often 
> misclassified in these shallow analyses. For instance the ".d" 
> file extension is used for other things than dlang etc.
>
> And does it actually make any sense to compare languages like 
> Python and C++? Completely different domains.

This is only partially true, as I know from a friend, he is 
physicist @ DESY Hamburg, he is programming exactly with this 
pair of languages for data analysis.
(Could not convince him to try D jet :-))

Regards mt.