Re:Covariance and Contravariance: a fresh look at an old iss...
by vorg on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @06:01PM
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> The sum of popularities for these three would tie with Groovy at #18
You said "highly flawed TIOBE index". Look at http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy and notice the sudden jump from 0.33% in Nov 2015 to 1.2% a month later. I would say grossly unbelievable, even massively fabricated. I suspect Groovy's backers pulled off this trick by having "Gradle DSL" added to their Groovy keyword list, but with the announcement that Gradle are adding Kotlin to their supported DSL languages, Groovy's top 20 listing won't last.
You said "highly flawed TIOBE index". Look at http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy and notice the sudden jump from 0.33% in Nov 2015 to 1.2% a month later. I would say grossly unbelievable, even massively fabricated. I suspect Groovy's backers pulled off this trick by having "Gradle DSL" added to their Groovy keyword list, but with the announcement that Gradle are adding Kotlin to their supported DSL languages, Groovy's top 20 listing won't last.