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emadb | 2 years ago

The TIOBE Index [1] ranks Fortran at 12th place! Consider that Ruby is at 18th. In my opinion, this says a lot about the value of the index.

[1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

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sspiff|2 years ago

TIOBE index is sometimes very strange, but it takes into account available jobs as well. That said, their methodology has been challenged forever.

Still interesting to see that languages like Fortran (12th) and Pascal (13th) are ranked higher than the most popular languages for mobile app development (Swift for iOS, ranked 16th, and Kotlin for Android, ranked 17th) or a highly praised and adopted language for new projects like Rust (only 19th!).

AnimalMuppet|2 years ago

Pretty sure that Kotlin is not the most popular language for Android development. That would still be Java.

daniel-s|2 years ago

Sorry to be negative on the web, but the TIOBE index has no value whatsoever and is complete gibberish. Nobody should be paying attention to it.

https://youtube.com/shorts/m76vWNr83wo

fasterik|2 years ago

I don't care one way or another about the TIOBE index, but that video is obnoxious and isn't making an argument or presenting data. Not sure why anyone would be convinced by this.

BrandoElFollito|2 years ago

So what would be the property reference for "average language popularity"?

bitcharmer|2 years ago

TIOBE is as reliable as Gartner.

nairboon|2 years ago

One day, dlang might even overtake cobol in the TIOBE index...