Well, sure. I read that too. I think it is still useful that my intuition that Go is gaining adoption aligns with what prominent metrics are reporting, even if it is because the reporting changed how they measured.
Eric. On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 4:51 PM, 'Eric Johnson' via golang-nuts > <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > And then, for language adoption, the TIOBE language index for August of > > 2016: > > http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ > > > > (Note that the above is updated every six months, and I've not been able > to > > find a link to previous versions of the reports, however, you can look > for > > the trend for Go itself http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/go/ ). > > Go finally breaks into the top twenty. > > It's because they changed their definition of Go. Quoting from > farther down the page: "The restriction "Google" has been removed from > the search queries for the programming language Go. Ilja Heilager > sorted out that without the search term "Google" the resulting Go hits > are still referring to the Go language. After having removed this > restriction Go jumped from position #55 to #20. Thanks Ilja!" > > Ian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
