You must have misread my comment. Popularity (as in what typical future employers require) is one of the factors (besides fitness for education and program cons

You must have misread my comment. Popularity (as in what typical future employers require) is one of the factors (besides fitness for education and program consistency), TIOBE is not. The TIOBE reference was to show that there are nearly always metrics that show your point. But I guess it is easy to stomp on people based on presumption. Let's just stick to arguments, rather than poisoning the well.