Tiobe can&#x27;t be right. It has Assembly ahead of Ruby and right behind JavaScript. What???<p>Redmonk looks flawed too. I would expect GitHub to create a major sampling bias in favor of smaller, throwaway projects, and in fact, a quick search(1) on GitHub appears to show 2.2 million projects smaller than a kilobyte that have never gotten a single star. Should those be counted? Do they really reflect anything meaningful about the language&#x27;s <i>rank</i>?<p>In my opinion, the only meaningful measure of a programming language worth <i>quantifying</i> from the net are StackOverFlow tags: they can be counted and read and provide a real reflection of the language&#x27;s community without giving any special preference to language, license, or context.<p>Everything else is hopelessly subjective: whether or not the language maps well to a particular problem, whether it maps well to the way you like to program, and whether it fits into the ecosystem in which you plan to deploy it. You can&#x27;t measure those with google searches.<p>(1) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;q=size%3A%3C1+stars%3A%3C1&amp;type=Repositories&amp;ref=searchresults" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&amp;q=size%3A%3C1+stars...</a>