R, Swift soar in language search popularity in 2014
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Ignoring for the moment the issue of what, if anything, Tiobe's index is actually worth; why not just link to Tiobe[^] itself? A few things visible by looking at the table itself appear more interesting than any of the clickbait articles regurgitating whatever part of the result fits their agenda best. What immediately stood out to me is that the top 6 languages on their list all took downward hits in their shares over the last year. IF this means that interest in second tier languages is rising or if Tiobe's changed their implementation in a way that rates them higher is an interesting question I've not seen addressed anywhere. Looking at the rest of the top 20 ratings I see Visual Basic has gone from 0.002% to 1.802% (a 901x increase), PL/SQL and Pascal both roughly doubled their ratings, Perl and Delphi are up ~50%, VB.net up 25%. Since none of these are buzzword compliant platforms (with the debatable exception of Oracle, legacy/stigmatized is probably a better description), huge surges in their real popularity are unlikely; meaning that Tiobe probably has been fiddling with its own numbers in some way shape or form.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Ignoring for the moment the issue of what, if anything, Tiobe's index is actually worth; why not just link to Tiobe[^] itself? A few things visible by looking at the table itself appear more interesting than any of the clickbait articles regurgitating whatever part of the result fits their agenda best. What immediately stood out to me is that the top 6 languages on their list all took downward hits in their shares over the last year. IF this means that interest in second tier languages is rising or if Tiobe's changed their implementation in a way that rates them higher is an interesting question I've not seen addressed anywhere. Looking at the rest of the top 20 ratings I see Visual Basic has gone from 0.002% to 1.802% (a 901x increase), PL/SQL and Pascal both roughly doubled their ratings, Perl and Delphi are up ~50%, VB.net up 25%. Since none of these are buzzword compliant platforms (with the debatable exception of Oracle, legacy/stigmatized is probably a better description), huge surges in their real popularity are unlikely; meaning that Tiobe probably has been fiddling with its own numbers in some way shape or form.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Dan Neely wrote:
Ignoring for the moment the issue of what, if anything, Tiobe's index is actually worth; why not just link to Tiobe itself?
Well, there are vast and numerous reasons why. :~ OK, entirely because I came across this article first. (And that the Tiobe list rarely has much analysis, so just linking to a few charts just doesn't get me going these days) ;)
TTFN - Kent