Re:Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language
by andsoitis on Friday June 02, 2023 @10:41AM
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So all programming languages are popular?
Re:Cakelisp: A performance-oriented Lisp-like language
by klibertp on Friday June 02, 2023 @01:10PM
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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
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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.
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/