PYPL: PopularitY of Programming Language https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html is a nice PL metrics tracker that's an alternative to TIOBE.
It has a clear methodology and it carefully chooses keywords to avoid e.g. Python metrics being affected by interest in snakes.
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You know a software project has achieved popularity when people are using it on platforms other than Windows/Mac/Linux!
For example, I noticed that the cc crate recently had fixes for AIX.
As shortform video grows in popularity, will we start seeing it in docs?
I can imagine a docs page that starts with a 30-60 second video as being popular for some users.
As Rust grows in popularity as a systems language, I expect that someone will develop a dynamic language explicitly designed with great interop in mind.
C++ games seem to use Lua for this, and I've seen Java projects use Groovy.
Are there any up-and-coming contenders for Rust?