Tiobe’s readings for December are in; time for a brief review. Based on their
metrics, Fortran entered the group of “top ten” in April. Out of twelve months,
Fortran continously is this group for nine (never this long since 2016)
including November at rank 8 out of a set of 281 languages tracked and a reading
of 2.05% in July worth a rank 9, both alltime records of Fortran along these scales.
| month | rating | rank |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2024-01 | 1.09% | 12 |
| 2024-02 | 1.40% | 11 |
| 2024-03 | 1.22% | 14 |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2024-04 | 1.47% | 10 |
| 2024-05 | 1.24% | 10 |
| 2024-06 | 1.53% | 10 |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2024-07 | 2.05% | 9 |
| 2024-08 | 1.79% | 10 |
| 2024-09 | 1.78% | 10 |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2024-10 | 1.80% | 9 |
| 2024-11 | 1.97% | 8 |
| 2024-12 | 1.79% | 10 |
If one monitors the rank monthly assigned, the readings seem to consolidate
and to move toward the better:
In the violin plot above, each blue dot represents a monthly reading (i.e. for 2024, there are six right at 10). For the interval between December 2013 and July 2016, I didn’t find public records about Fortran’s rank attributed by Tiobe and didn’t actively search beyond snapshots in archives of the waybackmachine/the internet archive.
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