 I was gonna hold off a bit on this video I was gonna get the why I dislike I decor and that video series done and Then get into why I dislike the edit community. I happen to stumble upon something that I Rather just get out of the way now It's I don't hide the fact that I don't like much of the added community But I'm known for being rather combative with several of the members Generally not liking much of them. There are the exceptions. There are certain individuals who I think are actually doing great things for the community but just Many of them I think are actually causing a lot of problems for the community and We're going to address one of those claims right now. I'll deal with the others later But one of the ones that much of the edit community it likes to bring up is This idea that Ida is not a popular programming language that barely anybody uses it that there's barely any interest in it And they repeat this they parrot it and It causes people new to the community to think well, I does not very popular. Why should I bother learning it and And to some extent this is something that people should be aware of If you're interested in learning Ida for job opportunities I'm going to recommend that you'll probably reconsider that unless you are also looking into getting security clearance If you're looking into Ida for job opportunities You're probably going to have better luck in the job market with another language. Okay There I said it That's just the reality of it. I'm not Misleading you in any way or form look through indeed look through monster. Look through any job search tool Other than a few select companies like I believe they're called vector. They do um testing services for Ida Pretty much other than them or Ida core or now ptc You're really not going to see too many job listings that don't have to do with the defense industry That's that's what the market mostly is Now there are some exceptions like the new york metro the paris metro There are others nasa But you're still dealing with some form of heavy industry. We can kind of consider defense a sort of Applicated heavy industry You see it depends on your ranking method, but I I think this might surprise you Ida ranks according to at least one programming language index Quite a lot higher than you might think now There are three major Indexes at least that i'm aware of the taiobi index the pypl index and the red monk index I'm not going to be getting into the methodologies in which one is more valid Really, I don't think that one is more valid, but they're just measuring specific Things and each of them has their merits um I couldn't find Results for ita for the pypl or red monk indexes So i'm just going to be covering its rankings on the taiobi index But still I think this will surprise you and after we cover the results it can come back and explain things So i'm not going to pretend that ita is going to make the top 10 at all. It doesn't make the top 20 but I don't know if these are truncated If they are truncated then ita is just barely tailing rust If they are equal then ita is Actually tied with rust So let's first look at a few things that just barely beat out ita cobalt and fortress ram scala t-sequel abap Lisp you see decent use of and scheme Things that ita actually beats that are sort of at least what I know is rather Viewed is more popular lab view Kotlin Bash Let that one sink in please julia Haskell hack power shill Erlang The next 50 so everything from 50 to a 51 to 100 you've got things like action script Uh closure common lisp elixir f sharp fourth icon There's It help type script Ita ranks A lot higher Then some people are giving it credit for now again The title bay index happens to measure a very specific thing And there really isn't one single good way to measure the popularity of a language The point here is just that ita is more popular Then some people are giving it credit for And by parroting this idea that ita is not popular and would be more popular if x happened It doesn't matter if x is valid at all People who are not aware of things like this are hearing that ita is not popular And as much as I disagree with it as being a motivation the simple fact is For some people how popular something is Is a factor they consider for whether something is or is not worth learning and using for them By mistakenly representing something as not that popular As less popular than things that again by at least some metrics it is more popular than It is MIPS representing the situation into ita being less Interesting for those types of people Thereby discouraging some people from learning the language That is all for this section of the series Again, I don't know which I will be doing next I want to get the series on what my issue is with ita core and not Finished first Until then have a good one