Is Julia fastest-growing new programming language?

[Thomas1965]

Up-and-coming language Julia is gaining momentum with programmers, according to its creators.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-julia-fastest-growing-new-programming-language-stats-chart-rapid-rise-in-2018/

[Cubbi]

according to its creators.

[E0p9LyTq]

@Cubbi, I was thinking the same thing, and was tempted to make the comment before you did.

Waited a bit, refreshed the page and you had already said it.

Of course the creators are going to think their language is the greatest programming language, ever. When Julia has as large a user-base (or larger) as C/C++ and been around just as long then I'll admit it is popular.

[Thomas1965]

Not only the developers. The links inside the article are independent.

[helios]

If I had to take a guess, both by number of new developers picking it up and by amount of new code being written in it, I'd say JavaScript is probably the fastest-growing language.

The article seems to overemphasize relative growth over absolute growth.
"My userbase has grown tenfold just this week! I now have a whole ten users!"
"Our growth this year has only been 1%. We're only making $ 10 billion more than last year."

[Thomas1965]

Good point @helios