I'm commenting on this old link here because my comments for it on Reddit r/programming haven't passed moderation. You can see my history of comments at https://www.reddit.com/user/vorg -- not sure what they don't like. Here's the comment...
In questioning the Tiobe index, the article doesn't even mention fellow JVM language Groovy's suspicious behavior. Click on "Groovy" and you'll see the graph at http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy which shows it rose from 0.33% to 1.8% in the last two months, and from 0.11% to 1.8% in the last 12 months -- both very fishy.
The graph shows these sudden peaks have happened before (Apr 2011, June 2012, Oct 2013) and are always followed by just-as-sudden falls. Check out the definition of the TIOBE ranking at http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/tiobe_index?page=programmingl... and you'll see Groovy's backer (the individual who privately owns the groovy-lang.org DNS domain) can game the ranking by "optimizing" any one of 23 of those 25 sites monitored. Groovy's long-term usual ranking for the last 10 years has been 0.1%.
In questioning the Tiobe index, the article doesn't even mention fellow JVM language Groovy's suspicious behavior. Click on "Groovy" and you'll see the graph at http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe_index?page=Groovy which shows it rose from 0.33% to 1.8% in the last two months, and from 0.11% to 1.8% in the last 12 months -- both very fishy.
The graph shows these sudden peaks have happened before (Apr 2011, June 2012, Oct 2013) and are always followed by just-as-sudden falls. Check out the definition of the TIOBE ranking at http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/tiobe_index?page=programmingl... and you'll see Groovy's backer (the individual who privately owns the groovy-lang.org DNS domain) can game the ranking by "optimizing" any one of 23 of those 25 sites monitored. Groovy's long-term usual ranking for the last 10 years has been 0.1%.