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I dislike these search based metrics for popularity. When I use python, I end up doing a lot more searches, because its a much more fragmented environment . . what version of python, what OS, . . . matplotlib, sns . . . I typically have to try a few tries to get something to work. In contrast with R, you can get a base R solution from a newsgroup that is 10 years old and it works. I think blindly looking at total searches or posts on stackoverflow is not the best metric for measuring the popularity of a language.
PYPL Language Rankings: Python ranks #1, R at #7 in popularity
The new PYPL Popularity of Programming Languages (June 2018) index ranks Python at #1 and R at #7. Like the similar TIOBE language index, the PYPL index uses Google search activity to rank language popularity. PYPL, however, fcouses on people searching for tutorials in the respective languages...
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