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Python on top of the TIOBE Index

via jbranchaud@gmail.com

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

graph of relative language rankings on TIOBE index with the blue Python line highlighted

There is a big grain of salt to be taken with any ranking like this. Nevertheless I find it interesting to 1) see the quick jump for Python in recent years that correspond with LLM proliferation and 2) the sharp decline over the past year.

The rise makes sense if you consider that a lot of AI and LLM tooling (e.g. pytorch) and general data science and data processing tooling are in the Python ecosystem. I'm not sure what the decline means. If I had to make a guess — LLM models and harnesses have gotten so good in the past year that developers are doing a lot less google searches and a lot more prompting as they use Python (and other languages).

Ruby -- the language that my career is mostly built on -- is down in the 30th spot.