sergio
Elixir language growth - the TIOBE index
There’s a new TIOBE index report that came out that shows Elixir is still not in the top 50 used languages.
It also goes on to call Elixir a “hipster programming language”.
The hipster programming languages Kotlin, Elixir and Hack didn’t progress much this month. Kotlin lost 5 positions, Hack lost 6 positions and Elixir is still not in the top 50 losing also 5 positions.
Does anyone have any Elixir numbers on growth? I really love the language and it’s ecosystem, I’m just curious what the numbers are.
What are some things that we as developers can do to extend Elixir?
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benwilson512
Growth can be good, but people tend to underestimate the cost of growth too. Massive influxes of new people put strain on existing community members and infrastructure, and can make it difficult to maintain cultural values. Cultural values in the programming world constitute things like code and library best practices, attitude towards beginners, and the overall tone of dialogue.
To me focusing on getting on some list is an empty goal. So long as we have people coming to this community, learning, and writing Elixir that’s success for me.
ilnux
TIOBE Index for February 2021:
48 Elixir 0.22%
DioDread
To be honest, some indexes where Visual Basic .NET in top 10, does not inspire real confidence on me =)
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