LC #48 @TIOBE

[Richard Gaskin]

Terry Judd wrote:

> Some contrasting data...
> 
> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F0490j1

2013 was LC's massive Kickstarter campaign.

For a system reflecting general searches, I would expect a decline in 
general attention after that.

Among programmer-specific resources used for TIOBE, a modest increase is 
fairly consistent with what I see subjectively from new membership rates 
in the forums.

Not that TIOBE is perfect, and it is indeed useful to use as many 
metrics as practical for business planning.  But the industry seems to 
favor TIOBE for ranking programming languages, and there may be some 
good reasons behind its popularity for that metric.

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