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Hey everyone, I noticed several times over the years people (mis)using TIOBE to support whatever their argument was. Each time someone in the thread would expla

Hey everyone, I noticed several times over the years people (mis)using TIOBE to support whatever their argument was. Each time someone in the thread would explain the various shortcomings of TIOBE and why we shouldn't use it. I decided to write up the issues so we could just point them towards this link instead.

an1sotropy 4y ago
Thanks for writing and sharing this I do not doubt your central claim (that the ranking is derived from merely counting search results, as lampooned by the xkcd example), but I'm curious how are you sure of this, or where is it documented?
- gus_massa 4y ago
  The details of the calculations are in https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin...
  - an1sotropy 4y ago
    oh my that is daft (thanks)