Ada reaches 1% on the PYPL index 
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We really need to add more tutorials and such. learn.adacore.com is great, but we need more explanations of how to work in the language and ecosystem, especially for application programmers.
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Needs more up arrows
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What is the main reason for Ada’s growing popularity this year?
Reached critical mass ? … 
Programmers usuably don’t choose (only) a language, but an ecosystem. If I wan’t to program the computation of a filter response and the drawing a bode plot, I guess I whould choose Python because of the matplotlib (even if Ada would be nice with its included complex computation). It is also a strength of Java : many things available out of the box (GUI binding, Web, etc).
I guess Alire will have an important value for many programmers which are considering Ada to develop something. Unfortunately, not every libraries can be easily installed with Alire.
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September 2025: 2.11%
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Note, regarding TIOBE, that the keyword “nvidia” is excluded from the Web searches. It is explained in “This Month’s Changes in the Index” (August 2025):
W. H. 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.
This is unfortunate because the exclusion discards lots of articles about NVIDIA’s own usage of Ada.
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Hence, an additional correction of Ada’s search term is required. +”NVIDIA Ada programming” maybe?
With that query, only that exact sequence (theoretically) would be searched, and Ada would land at place +/- #513 
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But I have searched a few weeks ago with Google, with a 1-year filter (as the TIOBE guy does) +“ada programming” +“NVIDIA” to see the impact of doing +“ada programming” -“NVIDIA”, as the TIOBE guy does currently.
37 hits were shown.
33 hits mentioned the Ada language (so, should be counted).
1 hit mentioned the “Ada Lovelace” GPU (so, should not be counted).
3 were about other topics or some chat in Indonesian (this noise is everywhere, is counted for all programming languages, so there is a mutual neutralization).
So I have suggested to the author just to remove the -“NVIDIA” filter.
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How about remove “-NVIDIA” and add '“-Lovelace”?
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This might be new too and Ada Lovelace is championed in some pro Women establishments of late.
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I have also suggested that the filter is reconsidered. I didn’t go for remove as I didn’t do an in-depth analysis.
Those interested in rankings may find the following interesting.
TL;DR:
- the good news is that, before long, we won’t be worried / squabbling about programming language popularity
- the bad news is that, before long, we’ll be worried / squabbling about Large Language Model popularity
- the worse news is that, not much longer after that, people will look at the world of software developers / engineers / etc. much the same way they look at the world of 8-bit cpu hobbyists: “how charmingly quaint!”
NB:
- i said that was the TL;DR, not that it was my personal belief
- i’m being tongue in cheek (hence the )…
- …mostly
