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Re:Fortran is back on the top 20 TIOBE index list by milancurcic on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:13AM (#26711983)
As I understand it, the TIOBE index is calculated based on search engine rankings. What I believe helped Fortran's ranking was our hard work on its web presence [1] (started April 2020), modern tooling [2] (started December 2019), and community building [3] (started May 2020).

[1] https://fortran-lang.org/

[2] https://github.com/fortran-lang/

[3] https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/

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Re:Fortran is back on the top 20 TIOBE index list by jillesvangurp on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:41AM (#26712349)
Right, I was wondering about the methodology. I think the yearly Stackoverflow surveys are a bit more reliable probably in terms of what people actually use.

The latest one does not even include either Fortran or Groovy, both of which allegedly and randomly got a lot more popular according to the article. I don't think either of those things actually happened.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-popular-...

Fortran competitor, Julia is included. That might just be bias of the Stackoverflow user base of course. But, I think it's a pretty widely used tool also for Fortran developers. At least there are plenty of questions tagged with that (11K, which is more than Julia's 8K).

There recently was some HN post about Fortran, so I imagine that might have triggered a few searches.

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