TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 14:43:00 UTC, Bubbasaur wrote:
> 1	Java	21.465%	+5.94%
> 2	C	16.036%	-0.67%
> 3	C++	6.914%	+0.21%
> 4	C#	4.707%	-0.34%
> 5	Python	3.854%	+1.24%
> 6	PHP	2.706%	-1.08%
> 7	Visual Basic .NET	2.582%	+1.51%
> 8	JavaScript	2.565%	-0.71%
> 9	Assembly language	2.095%	+0.92%
> 10	Ruby	2.047%	+0.92%

Sorry for spamming you, but ok. Let's take a look at github 
trending for last month. Let's take entry #20 for each of the top 
languages (number of stars) as an attempt to not favour languages 
with a few popular applications:

#20 for Java: lfkdsk / JustWeEngine: 463 stars
#20 for C:openresty / lua-nginx-module: 253 stars
#20 for C++: dmlc / xgboost: 228 stars
#20 for C#: FNA-XNA / FNA: 114 stars
#20 for Python:  levlaz / braindump: 507 stars
#20 for PHP: octobercms / october: 172 stars
#20 for Visual Basic: arc42 / arc42-template: 0 stars
#20 for JavaScript: mbostock / d3: 1039 stars
#20 for Ruby: kilimchoi / engineering-blogs:  184 stars

Then let's move to Swift, Objective-C, Go, Rust, Nim and D:

#20 for Swift: Carthage / Carthage: 335 stars
#20 for Objective-C: postmates / PMKVObserver: 256 stars
#20 for Go: influxdb / influxdb: 239 stars
#20 for Rust:  arthurprs / floki: 36 stars
#20 for D: Hackerpilot / DCD: 0 stars
#20 for Nimrod: micklat / NimBorg: 0 stars

Now, this is not extensive, so the following ranking might be 
missing some, but if we reorder top 7 based on this we get the 
following popularity score, with TIOBE in parentheses:

JavaScript: 100 (12)
Python: 49 (18)
Java:  45 (100)
Swift: 32 (6)
Objective-C: 25 (5)
C: 24 (75)
Go: 23 (<1)
C++: 22 (32)
Ruby: 18 (10)
Rust: 3 (1)

TIOBE isn't very useful for tracking trends.