Programming Language Rankings
Comments debate the accuracy and metrics of various programming language popularity indices like TIOBE, RedMonk, PYPL, GitHut, and JetBrains, questioning rankings for languages such as Python, JavaScript, C, and Ruby.
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Just the usual suspects (redmonk, langpop, tiobe).
Use RedMonk instead: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2022/03/28/language-rankings-1-2...
By which metric? TIOBE paints a different picture where also Python and JS are high but not exclusively.https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
The GitHut numbers show repository count. I'm sure there all sorts of small JS repos with 50 lines of code, boosting project porfolios of people everywhere. Of course lines of code also don't mean something good: some languages are a bit more verbose than others. The TIOBE index shows what programmers search for, which is likely unbiased by LoC or repository count. My goal really is to help show you that JS is popular, but not nearly as widely used (or desired) as people make it out to
C is not even in the top dozen most popular languages https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-data-playground/
This is not true[0][1][0] http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index[1] https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html
Implying that the 6th most popular language on GitHub can't qualify as "very popular"?
What ranking of language popularity do you think is more accurate than Tiobe?
Tiobe and Stack Overflow rankings don't mean much. Look how popular Tiobe ranks VB due to Excel macros, or SO ranks Bash and PowerShell very highly simply because people ask a lot of questions about it.
He's wrong: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/