Re: Most Popular Programming Languages

On 2025-05-09 22:05:18 +0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro said:

Two competing measures of language popularity, based on entirely
different methodologies, both agree that Python is at the top, by a
massive lead
<https://www.infoworld.com/article/3981643/python-popularity-climbs-to-highest-ever-tiobe.html>.   Both are in rough concord about what goes in the rest of the top 5 or
so, even if they put them in a different order. As to what comes after
that, they are in complete disagreement.
 I guess the difference can be summed up concisely as, Tiobe goes by
popularity of a mix of higher-quality learning resources, while Pypl
goes by a lower-quality one.

When I saw the subject line the first measure of popularity I could
think was how much a language is used. On the second thought that
is problematic: much of the use is secret. And shall a piece of code
used in 1 000 000 000 devices have one or 1 000 000 000 popularity
points?
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Mikko