On Friday 29 October 2010 03:49:32 Jeff Nowakowski wrote: > On 10/28/2010 04:45 PM, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote: > > Todd VanderVeen wrote: > >> http://langpop.com/ > >> > > Interesting that D comes first on Reddit with a reasonably > > > > comfortable margin ;) > > It's how they performed the search. These stats are pure crap, because > "D" matches tons of miscellaneous stuff. There's no way D is more > popular than Python on reddit. > > I remember years back when the D community was so obsessed over it's > Tiobe number, watching every little movement, and those stats were > complete crap too.
It's the sort of thing which is indicative of how much a language is discussed or used but which isn't accurate to base much off of. The fact that Java is near the top of most such lists whereas D is near the bottom definitely means something - Java is definitely used more than D. However, whether D is used more than Haskell or Erlang or any other language that might be near it on such lists means a lot less. And, of course, as you point out, D is a terrible name for a language from the standpoint of keyword searches, which doesn't help at all. So, I wouldn't say that such lists are worth nothing, but you have to take them with a large grain of salt. - Jonathan M Davis
