[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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