Plus TIOBE had Perl enter the top 10 suddenly this year but I do not see any new...

pjmlp · 2025-09-24T06:29:05 1758695345

Keeping 7 Ada vendors in business, one of the few areas where developers actually pay for tooling.

https://www.adacore.com/

https://www.ghs.com/products/ada_optimizing_compilers.html

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/apexada

https://www.ddci.com/solutions/products/ddci-developer-suite...

http://www.irvine.com/tech.html

http://www.ocsystems.com/w/index.php/OCS:PowerAda

http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/prodinf/janus95/j-ada95.htm

zerr · 2025-09-24T09:47:47 1758707267

It's more like people in golf suits agree on corruption schemes rather than actual devs making decisions.

pjmlp · 2025-09-24T11:42:24 1758714144

Which nonetheless reveals it is more relevant than others.

kamaal · 2025-09-24T09:01:04 1758704464

>>Perl enter the top 10 suddenly this year but I do not see any new developers.

Perl is almost as active as Javascript. And more useful than Python.

https://metacpan.org/recent

I write Perl to do all sorts of thing every week. Its strange its not in the top 5 list.

cies · 2025-09-24T10:07:55 1758708475

You're joking right?

kamaal · 2025-09-24T14:21:15 1758723675

If you look at programming language list- Apart from Python, Java. Most are targeted to specific platforms(databases, browsers, embedded systems) or tech(SQL for database).

The general purpose programming languages today are still- Python, Java, and Perl. Make whatever of this you will.

Larry Wall at one point said, if you make something very specific to a use case(like awk, sed, php etc), it sort of naturally starts to come out of general purpose use.

Its just that Kotlin, Rust, Go, SQL, Julia, SQL, Javascript etc. These are not general purpose programming languages.

lief79 · 2025-09-24T14:03:13 1758722593

That was an active debate ... 15 years ago

WhereIsTheTruth · 2025-09-24T06:19:08 1758694748

https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages?compare=ada,gcc,go,ja...

Ada seems pretty popular on Arch

This data is kinda worthless for popularity contests, since they may get picked up by aur packages, but this gives a solid insight into wich languages are foundational

I wish the same was available for other distros

You can do the same with docker images

    curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/python/ | jq -r ".pull_count"
    8244552364

    curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/golang/ | jq -r ".pull_count"
    2396145586

    curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/perl/ | jq -r ".pull_count"
    248786850

    curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/rust/ | jq -r ".pull_count"
    102699482

"Top Languages" doesn't mean "better" nor does it mean "best"

epcoa · 2025-09-24T07:05:25 1758697525

That’s a C++ URL parser library, has nothing to do with the programming language.

maleldil · 2025-09-24T13:26:51 1758720411

You want gcc-ada for the programming language.