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: [Tiobe-J…

There’s no way that’s legit. Look at the chart for matlab: [image] 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 seriousl…

Meanwhile, Julia climbed #20 in PYPL ranking PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language index .

I’m not familiar with PYPL methodology but surely it can’t be very useful either if it places Julia (and Lua, Ruby, Ada) all above Go

I agree that there are systematics in the data that are not believable. The bigger question for me is if the long term trends in the data (say over a decade or so) are indicative of what is actually happening in the real world. If you factor in the data from @StefanKarpinski , along with the data fro…

Do we really need to rehash TIOBE index rank: #20 as of August 2023 (was #23 in Jan 2021) ?

Yes, it seems like people are interested in the various programming language rankings, even though of course none of them are perfect

Just to repeat myself : [Screenshot_20260303-082821]

Do we have anything better? On the one hand, it seems like people are generally interested in such rankings. On the other hand, it’s often claimed that they’re “just noise”, meaningless, etc. And yet these rankings are still around and still attract some attention. I guess that’s because people gene…

[image] ForceBru: And yet these rankings are still around and still attract some attention. I guess that’s because people generally like various rankings? Based on such ratings, many people try to make decisions which language to learn or to choose for their task when they are unsure.

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giordano March 3, 2026, 7:30am 9

Just to repeat myself:

Topic		Replies	Views
TIOBE index rank: #20 as of August 2023 (was #23 in Jan 2021) Community ranking	92	22371	October 19, 2025
Julia ranking trend, TIOBE, RedMonk Community	81	16375	October 16, 2019
Julia climbed to 39, the second-highest rank up to now New to Julia	0	796	September 11, 2018
Julia is going upwards: Redmonk rank Community	21	3644	March 15, 2018
Julia at #31 on IEEE Spectrum "Top Programming Languages" for 2017 Community advocacy	4	1626	July 22, 2017

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