miniblog.

TIOBE considered misleading: https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/ It claims that iOS + macOS is less than half the size of Visual Basic!

The "Rule Of Least Power" makes a great argument in favour of less computationally capable languages. It claims this helped HTML/CSS adoption. https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/leastPower.html Applying this principle, I'd expect total languages to be popular. This hasn't happened AFAICT: what's missing?

icGrep claims up to 100x speedup over grep http://t.co/DTA6iPzuad -- perhaps an interesting ag alternative?