Re:Tiobe Index: Go language at all time high and in the top 10
by Someone on Sunday July 09, 2017 @09:05AM
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IMO, this list has very low correlation with what programmers spend their time on. Yes, they write
"The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors".
but effectively count search engine hits on "+foo language" (https://tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-definiti...) on quite a few sites, over half of them Google properties, so they probably double-count a lot, and including IMO weird choices such as eBay.com.
So, even disregarding the question whether that can lead to ratings "based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors" any tweak Google makes to their search algorithm hugely affects their results.
"The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors".
but effectively count search engine hits on "+foo language" (https://tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-definiti...) on quite a few sites, over half of them Google properties, so they probably double-count a lot, and including IMO weird choices such as eBay.com.
So, even disregarding the question whether that can lead to ratings "based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors" any tweak Google makes to their search algorithm hugely affects their results.