TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 23:12:39 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 20:38:31 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote:
>> Good news!
>>
>> D rose from 28th to 23th!
>>
>> 2015 - 
>> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>
>> 2014 - 
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20141230025738/http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>
>> Bubba.
>
> doesn't seem very reliable
> haskell at 39? go at 50?
> doesn't even seem remotely close to Google Trend's data for 
> programming languages, for example
> https://www.google.com/trends/explore#cmpt=q&q=/m/01kbt7,+/m/03j_q,+/m/09gbxjr&cat=0-5-31

Nobody can measure actual usage, TIOBE seems to be an 
approximation of buzz, since they mostly look at search engines:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/programminglanguages_definition.html

Look at the big drop for Obj-C they show this year, there is no 
way _usage_ dropped 80% in the last year.  But with Swift coming 
on strong, buzz could certainly have dropped a lot, as many iOS 
developers shift Obj-C into maintenance mode and stop buying 
books or talking about it as much.

With Android dominating and Java making a comeback on the server, 
its rise this year makes some sense.  People are writing articles 
about Java gaining use again (written two years ago, but I was 
surprised to see Java being hyped up again):

http://www.wired.com/2013/09/the-second-coming-of-java/

As for D, with more talks on youtube and certainly many more 
books coming out this year, it likely trended up on the youtube 
and amazon search components.