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by leejo 325 days ago
Which is more believable or surprising:

a) there is probably several orders of magnitude more Perl code running out there in the wild than Rust?

b) the TIOBE index was ever meaningful?

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I'm sure (a) is true. But TIOBE is supposed to be some balance between "total mass of existing code" and "current interest in new code".