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Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] by kamaal on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:02AM (#18345749)
That's because TIOBE derives metrics from search results. Which means every time some one searches 'Python, the snake', that also gets counted as 'Python, the programming language'.

Most people looking for help on the internet are searching:

"How do I do X in shell?"

No of people looking for help with the word 'Bash' are likely to be lower.

That's one reason why TIOBE is sometimes way off the real trends.

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Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] by steveklabnik on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:24AM (#18345918)
I don't like TIOBE, and think it's a pretty bad index, but they search for "$LANG programming", not just $LANG.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-defi...

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Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] by 200px on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:21AM (#18346411)
> Which means every time some one searches 'Python, the snake', that also gets counted as 'Python, the programming language'.

This is false.

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