C is probably still popular, but TIOBE is less accurate than a horoscope. TIOBE index shows C has lost 62% of its users in 2016-2018, then almost tripled in po

C is probably still popular, but TIOBE is less accurate than a horoscope. TIOBE index shows C has lost 62% of its users in 2016-2018, then almost tripled in popularity next year, and then again lost almost half of its users. Do you think such swing of popularity is possible for such an established slow-moving language? I don't think so — it just shows how far TIOBE can diverge from reality, and that the error bars on the index should be +/- 50%. A few % blip means nothing. TIOBE is measuring rollouts of new Google search algorithms, not language popularity.