Measuring programming language popularity based on the number of unique users on GitHub: https://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-languages-by-github-users/
Whilst this gives the dataset a FOSS bias, it's much cleaner data than e.g. a keyword search of job postings which some other metrics use.
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Whilst LLMs don't always give an accurate answer, the UI is really compelling. I keep finding users whose favourite way of doing research is an LLM.
One advantage I've come to appreciate about Dash/Zeal docsets: it's really nice having focused search.
The text search is constrained to the languages I care about enough to download the docset, substantially increasing the relevance. In Google I'd need to specify the language.
Blogging about my programming language project: choosing the basic syntax!
https://www.garden-lang.org/blog/syntax.html