Perl 🐪 Weekly #755 – Does TIOBE help Perl?

Originally published at Perl Weekly 755

Hi there!

Dave Cross has an article showing position of Perl on the TIOBE index. As I don’t see any up-tick in new subscribers to the Perl Weekly nor do I see any increase in the MetaCPAN activity I keep track of, I doubt that the changes in the position reflects actual changes in the market. However I wonder, could the TIOBE index have an impact on the interest in Perl? How and when could we see that?

Speaking of the MetaCPAN report, I’d love if someone sent a PR to the Perl Weekly that would generates same graphs using these numbers. Here is the issue for it.

And another comment related to those stats. I just noticed that the No CI column went up from 30-40% to 80-90% in recent weeks. I wonder why? Is it because some changes in the way I am collecting the data or are those real changes? Is it real change? I also just noticed some negative numbers in the No VCS (%) column. That’s not good. I guess I have to investigate this. Maybe during one of the Perl code reading and open source contribution events.

Enjoy your week!

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