Two competing measures of language popularity, based on entirely
different methodologies, both agree that Python is at the top, by a
massive lead <https://www.infoworld.com/article/3981643/python-popularity-climbs-to-highest-ever-tiobe.html>.

Both are in rough concord about what goes in the rest of the top 5 or
so, even if they put them in a different order. As to what comes after
that, they are in complete disagreement.

I guess the difference can be summed up concisely as, Tiobe goes by
popularity of a mix of higher-quality learning resources, while Pypl
goes by a lower-quality one.

(Is that harsh? I am not disappointed to see PHP absent from the Tiobe
top 10, but I am mystified by the absence of Rust, and the presence of
Visual Basic and Delphi, in same.)

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On Sun, 18 May 2025 19:08:52 +1000, Alexis wrote:

Then, too, there's things like this game dev's experience with giving
Rust a red-hot go:

https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

It had me at this line in the tl;dr section:

Making a fun & interesting games is about rapid prototyping and
iteration, Rust's values are everything but that

This is exactly what Python is good at.

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