D is ranked 12th on Google software technologies trends:

http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts#vm=chart&cid=programming_languages&geo=US&date=201307&a

See also redit entry:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1l1uyk/googles_ranking_of_software_technologies_in_the/

On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 23:23:10 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote:
> See also redit entry:

redit -> reddit

Eddit, er.. edit option would be nice to have in these forums.

On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 23:23:10 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote:
> D is ranked 12th on Google software technologies trends:

On closer examination it looks like Vitamin D is the source of the high rank. How about naming the next language release D+ ?

On 26/08/13 01:23, Paul Jurczak wrote:
> D is ranked 12th on Google software technologies trends:
>
> http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts#vm=chart&cid=programming_languages&geo=US&date=201307&a
>
> See also redit entry:
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1l1uyk/googles_ranking_of_software_technologies_in_the/

It's too few data points to be really sure, but looks like there's a Zipf's law (i.e. inverse power law relationship) in the rank-frequency relationship.

On 26/08/13 01:34, Paul Jurczak wrote:
> On closer examination it looks like Vitamin D is the source of the high rank.

Actually: Dungeons and Dragons. :-)

On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 23:37:55 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On 26/08/13 01:34, Paul Jurczak wrote:
>> On closer examination it looks like Vitamin D is the source of the high rank.
>
> Actually: Dungeons and Dragons. :-)

Let's make a D&D game in D so we can call it D&D&D.

On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 23:45:36 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> Let's make a D&D game in D so we can call it D&D&D.

Good call. Dark Sun as a campaign setting ... ? (D&D&D&DS)

On 8/25/13 4:34 PM, Paul Jurczak wrote:
> On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 23:23:10 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote:
>> D is ranked 12th on Google software technologies trends:
>
> On closer examination it looks like Vitamin D is the source of the high
> rank. How about naming the next language release D+ ?

The ranking is more sophisticated than that. Evidence: hover over the "?" next to "Explore".

Andrei

On Sunday, 25 August 2013 at 23:51:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> The ranking is more sophisticated than that. Evidence: hover over the "?" next to "Explore".

I was just thinking that it must be so, because if the ranking was just a naive aggregate, or had any major contribution from searches with alternative meanings, the single-letter-named languages would blow all the others away.

On Monday, 26 August 2013 at 00:00:30 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> I was just thinking that it must be so, because if the ranking was just a naive aggregate, or had any major contribution from searches with alternative meanings, the single-letter-named languages would blow all the others away.

Further evidence of that -- if you click through "Explore" for C, D or R, the interest over time is pretty much constant, suggesting that aggregate search volume has no semantic meaning in itself -- single letters are probably completely randomly distributed as search terms, across virtually all topics, meaning their overall volume must be huge.

Then look at the interest graphs for Java, HTML or SQL. Broad peaks, narrow troughs, almost certainly working weeks and weekends. Those searches are surely dominated by programming-related queries by working developers.

Peak interest in LaTeX presumably occurs at the same time as some interesting parties in San Francisco :-)