It's a misinformation. Scala never fell on TIOBE. The whole premise of "fall" is this paragraph, and it's a lie: > The TIOBE index (www.tiobe.com) of software

It's a misinformation. Scala never fell on TIOBE. The whole premise of "fall" is this paragraph, and it's a lie: > The TIOBE index (www.tiobe.com) of software language popularity ranked Scala at #13 in 2012; now it’s fallen to #32 in August 2016 From what I can find, TIOBE for Scala was actually #46 in May 2012: https://www.scribd.com/document/94860678/TIOBE-Programming-Community-Index-for-May-2012 https://www.scribd.com/document/94860678/TIOBE-Programming-C... That means it grew 14 points since 2012, not fell. More debunking here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5df1f1f6c6b6ebbb4dc67b2bc4da4eae https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5df1f1f6c6b6ebbb4dc67b2bc4...