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		leejo 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundati... Which is more believable or surprising: a) there is probably several orders of magnitude more Perl code running out there in the wild than Rust? b) the TIOBE index was ever meaningful?

oofbey 7 months ago [–]

I'm sure (a) is true. But TIOBE is supposed to be some balance between "total mass of existing code" and "current interest in new code".

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