[HN Gopher] The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2023
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The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2023
Author : clairegiordano
Score : 20 points
Date : 2023-05-16 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| threatofrain wrote:
| Ranking over time.
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| https://redmonk.com/rstephens/files/2023/05/redmonk-language...
| yurodivuie wrote:
| I'm curious as to the query they're using in stackoverflow, since
| the results they've graphed vary considerably from
| https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends.
| kibwen wrote:
| I don't think they need to do anything as sophisticated as a
| query, they're just looking at how many questions are tagged
| for each language (which you can see from the tag search page)
| and then plotting those on a logarithmic scale.
| ghaff wrote:
| RedMonk has said they use the Stack Overflow Data Explorer
| tool but I don't know (though perhaps they've written about
| in the past) the exact queries they use.
| steveklabnik wrote:
| The end of the post says
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| > Credit: My colleague Rachel Stephens wrote the queries that
| are responsible for the GitHub axis in these rankings. She is
| also responsible for the query design for the Stack Overflow
| data.
| nyc640 wrote:
| I don't think they even plot the tag numbers on any scale. It
| looks from the graph like it's just graphing the "rank" (but
| actually inverse rank), so they sort the languages by # of
| tags and give each position an inverse score corresponding to
| the rank (#1 gets 102 "points", #2 gets 101, #3 gets 100,
| etc.).
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