>If Python community would be reduced to PyPy, the TIOBE index would be exactly the same as it is now, because they would still be asking questions about the programming language named Python.
You're proposing an alternate universe, where CPython didn't exist, and PyPy built more or less the same Python community up.
Which is plausible, but not relevant to the mechanics of my point.
My argument wasn't "what if we didn't have CPython, but PyPy from the start, then Python wouldn't be successful" (which is obviously wrong).
It was rather "a feature that's only in PyPy, is niche and not really that relevant as far as Python is concerned, even if PyPy is a Python, since PyPy has an insignificant amount of users -- so few that, if we removed the CPython user's impact and only kept PyPy's impact (as it stands, not going back in 1990 and replacing one with the other), Python wouldn't be in the TIOBE Top 100".
You're proposing an alternate universe, where CPython didn't exist, and PyPy built more or less the same Python community up.
Which is plausible, but not relevant to the mechanics of my point.
My argument wasn't "what if we didn't have CPython, but PyPy from the start, then Python wouldn't be successful" (which is obviously wrong).
It was rather "a feature that's only in PyPy, is niche and not really that relevant as far as Python is concerned, even if PyPy is a Python, since PyPy has an insignificant amount of users -- so few that, if we removed the CPython user's impact and only kept PyPy's impact (as it stands, not going back in 1990 and replacing one with the other), Python wouldn't be in the TIOBE Top 100".