In Tiobe’s survey about July, Fortran experienced some improvement compared the earlier months:
| month | rating | rank |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2023-01 | 0.45% | 27 |
| 2023-02 | 0.58% | 24 |
| 2023-03 | 0.79% | 17 |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2023-04 | 0.59% | 20 |
| 2023-05 | 0.78% | 19 |
| 2023-06 | 0.99% | 15 |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2023-07 | 1.25% | 11 |
| 2023-08 | 1.03% | 14 |
| 2023-09 | 1.28% | 11 |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2023-10 | 1.02% | 16 |
| 2023-11 | 1.30% | 12 |
| 2023-12 | 1.07% | 12 |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2024-01 | 1.09% | 12 |
| 2024-02 | 1.40% | 11 |
| 2024-03 | 1.22% | 14 |
|---------+--------+------|
| 2024-04 | 1.47% | 10 |
last update: [2024-04-08 Mon]
«Fortran and Matlab entered the top 20 once again at the expense of Lua and Prolog.» as by Tiobe’s July statistics accessed on 2022-07-09 (reference). Because this metric explicitly includes Youtube, I speculate the video FORTRAN in 100 Seconds contributes to this increase. (The video was discussed earlier here.)
To put this a little bit into perspective, I picked some 100 s of … videos of Jeff Delaney’ channel Fireship (1.43M subscribers), namely about Fortran, Julia, Python, Lua, and COBOL. It could be I did not recognize R, or that this topic is not (yet?) considered by him. As by today (2022-07-11):
| language | published | views | likes |
|----------+------------------+-------+-------|
| Fortran | [2022-06-10 Fri] | 429k | 22k |
| Julia | [2022-05-19 Thu] | 332k | 21k |
| Python | [2021-10-25 Mon] | 1.07M | 53k |
| Lua | [2022-02-14 Mon] | 774k | 48k |
| Cobol | [2020-04-11 Sat] | 723k | 32k |
|----------+------------------+-------+-------|
Though the video about Fortran was released more recently than Julia, the difference in the numbers of this snapshot is less important than I anticipated.
The continuously updated .csv below lists all monthly recordings by Tiobe about Fortran since June 2001 as read from the diagram; starting with July 2016 as known to the timemachine by archive.org since and including July 2016 for a total of 260+ entries.
| highest percentage | 1.47% | April 2024 |
| lowest percentage | 0.22% | February 2020 |
| highest rank | 10 | April 2024 (1.47%) |
| lowest rank | 50 | July 2020 (0.22%) |
2024-04-08_Tiobe_index_Fortran.csv (12.3 KB)