What has caused this spike in the usage of Ada over the last five years? (opens in new tab)

(tiobe.com)

5 pointsmax05636mo ago4 comments

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etrez6mo ago

It is a combination of different things:

- the Alire crate system

- Nvidia's own usage of Ada

- lots of sleeping military projects that were awaken in recent years

- the success of Python which is strongly inspired by Ada

thorn6mo ago

This might be the answer. It is not that the language became more popular, but rather the search keyword ada...

> This Month's Changes in the Index > William Herrera told us that programming language ADA might have been boosted in the TIOBE index because of the Ada Lovelace architecture of NVIDIA. For this reason we have added "-NVIDIA" to Ada's search term. As a consequence, Ada dropped from position #9 last month to position #13 this month.

GhosT0786mo ago

Well, that will erroneously drop the ranking because NVIDIA themselves use the Ada programming language. Refer to:

https://nvidia.github.io/spark-process/

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcsj20-s2112...

The term "Ada" appears in several contexts (sometimes for the same company) so keyword filters should not be used in such a simpleminded way.

etrez6mo ago

Unfortunately the author of the TIOBE index has obeyed too quickly to what Mr Herrera told him. The hits about that "Ada Lovelace architecture" are a negligible part of the hits you get with: +"Ada programming" +"nvidia". The lions' share is about Nvidia's own usage of the Ada language. Those hits should be counted of course.

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4 comments

etrez6mo ago

It is a combination of different things:

- the Alire crate system

- Nvidia's own usage of Ada

- lots of sleeping military projects that were awaken in recent years

- the success of Python which is strongly inspired by Ada

thorn6mo ago

This might be the answer. It is not that the language became more popular, but rather the search keyword ada...

GhosT0786mo ago

Well, that will erroneously drop the ranking because NVIDIA themselves use the Ada programming language. Refer to:

https://nvidia.github.io/spark-process/

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcsj20-s2112...

The term "Ada" appears in several contexts (sometimes for the same company) so keyword filters should not be used in such a simpleminded way.

etrez6mo ago

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