On 04/11/2019 09:03, RazvanN via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Good news, everyone!
D has entered the Tiobe top 20 ranking of programming languages
[1], landing on the 18th position. I have been keeping an eye on
this index, and it is for the first time that I see this
happening.
Not that I am advocating gaming the Tiobe ranking protocol but I
note that "ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers
world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines
such as
Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used
to calculate the ratings."
The above being so, a quick win for a language that wished to raise
its Tiobe ranking and thus its general profile would be for its
community to post lots of "course" (i.e. tutorial) videos on
YouTube. It is possible that a series of videos, constituting a
course, might be better still. This would potentially increase the
ranking directly based upon YouTube hits. If language community
blogs and forums could then link to these YouTube courses then this
would, in turn, increase the language's ranking on Google, Bing, and
so on. Wikipedia articles linking to the YouTube courses would also
be beneficial.
Just a thought.
It is ironic that an increased Tiobe ranking (amongst others) can,
in and of itself, increase the genuine user base of a language. (As,
perhaps, with the community hype around Rust).
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Mark Rousell