What has caused this spike in the usage of Ada over the last five years?
1–5 of 5 posts
Re: What has caused this spike in the usage of Ada over the last five years?
#2This might be the answer. It is not that the language became more popular, but rather the search keyword ada...
> This Month's Changes in the Index > William Herrera told us that programming language ADA might have been boosted in the TIOBE index because of the Ada Lovelace architecture of NVIDIA. For this reason we have added "-NVIDIA" to Ada's search term. As a consequence, Ada dropped from position #9 last month to position #13 this month.
Re: What has caused this spike in the usage of Ada over the last five years?
#3This might be the answer. It is not that the language became more popular, but rather the search keyword ada... > This Month's Changes in the Index > William Herrera told us that programming language ADA might have been boosted in the TIOBE index because of the Ada Lovelace architecture of NVIDIA. For this reason we have added "-NVIDIA" to Ada's search term. As a consequence, Ada dropped from position #9 last month t…
Well, that will erroneously drop the ranking because NVIDIA themselves use the Ada programming language. Refer to:
https://nvidia.github.io/spark-process/
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcsj20-s2112...
The term "Ada" appears in several contexts (sometimes for the same company) so keyword filters should not be used in such a simpleminded way.
Re: What has caused this spike in the usage of Ada over the last five years?
#4This might be the answer. It is not that the language became more popular, but rather the search keyword ada... > This Month's Changes in the Index > William Herrera told us that programming language ADA might have been boosted in the TIOBE index because of the Ada Lovelace architecture of NVIDIA. For this reason we have added "-NVIDIA" to Ada's search term. As a consequence, Ada dropped from position #9 last month t…
Unfortunately the author of the TIOBE index has obeyed too quickly to what Mr Herrera told him. The hits about that "Ada Lovelace architecture" are a negligible part of the hits you get with: +"Ada programming" +"nvidia". The lions' share is about Nvidia's own usage of the Ada language. Those hits should be counted of course.
Re: What has caused this spike in the usage of Ada over the last five years?
#5It is a combination of different things:
- the Alire crate system
- Nvidia's own usage of Ada
- lots of sleeping military projects that were awaken in recent years
- the success of Python which is strongly inspired by Ada