D enters Tiobe top 20

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 13:01:14 UTC 2019


On Tuesday, 5 November 2019 at 12:35:11 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Nothing too surprising, I guess.

I guess C++/ C is worth noticing as well:

https://www.openhub.net/languages/compare?utf8=%E2%9C%93&measure=contributors&language_name%5B%5D=cpp&language_name%5B%5D=c&language_name%5B%5D=-1&commit=Update

So C is experiencing stagnation, but C++ apparently has linear 
growth from C++14 onwards.

10% of all contributors on Github committing C++ code seems a bit 
too much. Probably some overcounting, people who commit non-C++ 
code to a mixed language project will count as a C++ contributor 
on Open Hub.

Maybe more multi-language-projects have started to use C++ for 
low level libraries? Dunno, but regardless, continuous language 
improvements seem to pay off in terms of increased adoption.



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