Programming language rankings: R makes a comeback but theres debate about its rise
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In May, when R crashed out of the top 20 for the first time in three years, Tiobe speculated that the language could be a victim of consolidation in statistical programming, with more developers in the field gravitating towards Python. Paul Jansen, CEO of Tiobe Software, now reckons R and Python have benefited from demand in universities and from global efforts to find a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus. " Tiobes rankings are based on search-engine results related to programming-language queries, which some developers question as a valid measure of a languages popularity. However, it noted recently that R illustrates the "remarkable popularity of a language whose usage is restricted for all intents and purposes to a single domain – those who work with and operate on data". R also doesnt feature in GitHubs top 10 list for 2019, which is led by JavaScript, and followed by Python, Java, PHP, C#, C++, TypeScript, Shell, C and Ruby.
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