Yes I know that computer language popularity rankings are not to be trusted but I came upon the site github.com/toUpperCase78/tiobe-index-ratings.git which has data for the TIOBE ratings and I thought it would be fun to graph Julia’s rating. So for your viewing pleasure, here is the plot:
For comparison, Python, which is in first place has a rating of roughly 20% and C is in second place with a rating of roughly 10%. To be in the top 20, a language needs to have, approximately, at least a 1% rating. Right now (February 2026), Julia is in 29th place.
Cheers, David
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There’s no way that’s legit. Look at the chart for matlab:
From may 2017 to may 2018 it dropped from 2% to 0.9%? You know that’s bollocks…
If anyone is interested in gaming the TIOBE rating, you should list Julia your stickers and merch on Ebay and Amazon marketplace, and add references to Julia algorithms to wikipedia. Each additional posting there is probably worth a few hundredths of a rating point.
OK, don’t do that, but seriously, eBay and Amazon make up nearly half of the rating and the denominators there aren’t that big.
The noisiness of the metric is great for posting about every increase and ignoring every decrease, though 
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