What Has Caused This Spike in the Usage of Ada Over the Last Five Years?
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> This Month's Changes in the Index > William Herrera told us that programming language ADA might have been boosted in the TIOBE index because of the Ada Lovelace architecture of NVIDIA. For this reason we have added "-NVIDIA" to Ada's search term. As a consequence, Ada dropped from position #9 last month to position #13 this month.
https://nvidia.github.io/spark-process/
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-demand/session/gtcsj20-s2112...
The term "Ada" appears in several contexts (sometimes for the same company) so keyword filters should not be used in such a simpleminded way.
- the Alire crate system
- Nvidia's own usage of Ada
- lots of sleeping military projects that were awaken in recent years
- the success of Python which is strongly inspired by Ada