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Re:Relative popularity of programming languages on Hacker News by AnimalMuppet on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:51AM (#33192694)
Not saying you're wrong, but... do you have any source for saying that Julia has as many users as Rust?
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Re:Relative popularity of programming languages on Hacker News by williamstein on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:11PM (#33195172)
On TIOBE, Julia (27) and Rust (20) are relatively close right now, and TIOBE might have some correlation to number of users. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
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Re:Relative popularity of programming languages on Hacker News by cutler on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:42PM (#33197920)
TIOBE's methodology is a joke. I'm surprised it gets a mention on a forum like HN which tends to attract the sharpest minds in the industry.
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Re:Relative popularity of programming languages on Hacker News by pittmajp on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:17PM (#33198577)
We sure are all great on here aren’t we? Plaudits to everyone involved.
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Re:Relative popularity of programming languages on Hacker News by Tozen on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:14AM (#33202493)
If you look at the IEEE top programming language list, it is still close. Believe it's Rust ranked #20 to Julia's rank of #28 (if my count is correct). https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022

And if you compare the IEEE to the TIOBE list, there appears to be a high degree of correlation. I think part of the criticism against TIOBE, is when people's favorite is not doing as well as they would like or a language they don't like is doing better than they expected.

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