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Isn't the TIOBE index more of an "engagement" index than a indexes "of popularity" A good designed language will perform worse than a language where people str

Isn't the TIOBE index more of an "engagement" index than a indexes "of popularity" A good designed language will perform worse than a language where people struggle and ask a lot of questions online? If I rant about java, because I love Csharp. Doesn't java get rated as more popular?

sk11001 3y ago
TIOBE doesn't even measure engagement, it's just outright useless. For one example of its stupidity, Visual FoxPro, a proprietary language which has been dead for 8 years - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_FoxPro - is ranked higher than TypeScript.
KronisLV 3y ago
For anyone looking for perhaps something a bit more relevant, StackOverflow has some nice surveys: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/ https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/ Also, there are surveys by JetBrains: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/ https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/