The TIOBE index is widely regarded as mostly useless for the kind of thing people try to use it for. Their own description of the index shows the problem: > Ba

The TIOBE index is widely regarded as mostly useless for the kind of thing people try to use it for. Their own description of the index shows the problem: > Basically the calculation comes down to counting hits for the search query +"<language> programming" That's it. The rest of the definition hinges on weighting the different search engines and deciding what counts as a programming language. So the index is actually just measuring a proxy (search hits) for the number of online pages that contain the words "$LANG programming" in them. A number of problems become evident with that definition, but most important here is that common linguistic usage patterns in a community have an enormous impact in rating. "Swift programming" may get fewer hits, but "iOS development" is a synonymous search term these days that gets ignored by TIOBE. The same for "Rails" and "Ruby" and "Android" and "Kotlin". TIOBE is fine as a tool if you understand its limitations, but articles like this rarely do. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin...