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What has caused this spike in the usage of Ada over the last five years?

5 points| max0563 | 5 months ago |tiobe.com

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etrez|5 months ago

It is a combination of different things:

- the Alire crate system

- Nvidia's own usage of Ada

- lots of sleeping military projects that were awaken in recent years

- the success of Python which is strongly inspired by Ada

thorn|5 months ago

This might be the answer. It is not that the language became more popular, but rather the search keyword ada...

> This Month's Changes in the Index > William Herrera told us that programming language ADA might have been boosted in the TIOBE index because of the Ada Lovelace architecture of NVIDIA. For this reason we have added "-NVIDIA" to Ada's search term. As a consequence, Ada dropped from position #9 last month to position #13 this month.

etrez|5 months ago

Unfortunately the author of the TIOBE index has obeyed too quickly to what Mr Herrera told him. The hits about that "Ada Lovelace architecture" are a negligible part of the hits you get with: +"Ada programming" +"nvidia". The lions' share is about Nvidia's own usage of the Ada language. Those hits should be counted of course.