TIOBE index is a horoscope for programmers — it's useless junk, and you can only use it to reinforce your pre-existing beliefs. TIOBE has shown that beteen 201

TIOBE index is a horoscope for programmers — it's useless junk, and you can only use it to reinforce your pre-existing beliefs. TIOBE has shown that beteen 2016 and 2017 the C language has dropped by 50%, and then in 2018 it miraculously doubled in usage. What's more likely: that the slowest-moving most-conservative language just collapsed in one year, and later had a renaissance, or that TIOBE data is so shit that they have +/- 50% error margin? They're displaying percentages to two decimal places, but don't have a single digit of precision. According to TIOBE, Visual Fox Pro is 2.5 times more popular than TypeScript. In case you haven't heard of Visual Fox Pro, it's a niche language for a database product that has been discontinued 16 years ago. What's more likely: that Visual Fox Pro has still a massive userbase and almost nobody has heard of TypeScript, or that TIOBE's methodology is so stupid, that they can't even tell apart dead niche languages from the most popular ones? If you must use some ranking, use RedMonk which is at least trying to have accurate data https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/03/08/language-rankings-1-24/ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/03/08/language-rankings-1-2...