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Re:Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language by andsoitis on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:14AM (#36164612)
> depends on your definition of popularity

I'm a Common Lisp fan, but nobody would claim that it is popular. I don't know that "popularity" is as subjective as you describe.

Re:Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language by klibertp on Friday June 02, 2023 @09:39AM (#36164896)
Kotlin is widely popular, official language for one of the two dominant mobile platforms. It accounts for 0.37% of all search results gathered by TIOBE. Meanwhile, languages on the first 4 positions account for more than 50% of hits. Languages like PHP or Go, which you can still call pretty popular are on the order of 1-2 %.

It's completely subjective. The objective metrics (if web search are them, which is kind of dubious) tell us that whatever-language-you-like is probably orders of magnitude less popular than Fortran. The "real" popularity that you experience - how big the community is, how many packages are published, how many success stories are there - heavily depend on where you are, who you know, and what you want.

The index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Re:Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language by andsoitis on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:41AM (#36165743)
So all programming languages are popular?
Re:Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language by klibertp on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:10PM (#36167891)
More like all but 5 or 10 are incomparably unpopular... But I'm pretty bad at statistics, so maybe your conclusion is truer.
Re:Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language by erik_seaberg on Sunday June 04, 2023 @07:05AM (#36184659)
I've always been troubled by a popularity metric that rewards a language for attracting a lot of novices who need help with it more often. I care more what experts use, but there isn't as much incentive for them to tell us.