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What's more interesting is Visual Basic is ranked as #7 and I couldn't get my head around why this is the case, lol.

duskwuff 4mo ago
> I couldn't get my head around why this is the case, lol. Because TIOBE's methodology is terrible, and always has been. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin... It's literally based on the (estimated) number of search engine hits for e.g. "Python programming" on Google and a handful of site-specific search engines (e.g. Amazon, eBay, Walmart, microsoft.com, etc), with some manually applied tweaks for languages with easily confusable names. Many of the fluctuations in rankings - like the big dip in the ranking for C between 2015 and 2018 - probably have more to do with changes in search engine algorithms than any real change in popularity.
- zdkaster 4mo ago
  Oh, thanks for the info. That's suprisingly a weird index to measure usage popularity...
- gf000 4mo ago
  https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-26/ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-2... This is usually considered a better ranking. This has Rust at #20.
dlcarrier 4mo ago
Scratch at #12 is even stranger. It's not even a programming language.
- duskwuff 4mo ago
  It's sort of a programming language. But not a particularly general-purpose one.
- baranul 4mo ago
  It makes sense, in terms of general usage and popularity, but not in terms of most requested for the job market or having the most legacy code. Different rankings measure different things, so it depends on what and how people want to assess languages and usage.
netbsdusers 4mo ago
It wouldn't surprise me if I learned that the vast majority of programming globally is in languages like Visual Basic or PHP that are utterly unfashionable on a board like this, but still make the world go round.
- zdkaster 4mo ago
  It's a bit hard to comprehend that's reality to be honest. But I could see that it could be the case from the fact that old industrial factories or old corporates would still run with what works for them.

> I couldn't get my head around why this is the case, lol. Because TIOBE's methodology is terrible, and always has been. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_definition/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin... It's literally based on the (estimated) number of search engine hits for e.g. "Python programming" on Google and a handful of site-specific search engines (e.g. Amazon, eBay, Walmart, microsoft.com, etc), with some manually applied tweaks for languages with easily confusable names. Many of the fluctuations in rankings - like the big dip in the ranking for C between 2015 and 2018 - probably have more to do with changes in search engine algorithms than any real change in popularity.

zdkaster 4mo ago
Oh, thanks for the info. That's suprisingly a weird index to measure usage popularity...
gf000 4mo ago
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-26/ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-2... This is usually considered a better ranking. This has Rust at #20.

dlcarrier 4mo ago

Scratch at #12 is even stranger. It's not even a programming language.

duskwuff 4mo ago
It's sort of a programming language. But not a particularly general-purpose one.
baranul 4mo ago
It makes sense, in terms of general usage and popularity, but not in terms of most requested for the job market or having the most legacy code. Different rankings measure different things, so it depends on what and how people want to assess languages and usage.

netbsdusers 4mo ago

It wouldn't surprise me if I learned that the vast majority of programming globally is in languages like Visual Basic or PHP that are utterly unfashionable on a board like this, but still make the world go round.

zdkaster 4mo ago
It's a bit hard to comprehend that's reality to be honest. But I could see that it could be the case from the fact that old industrial factories or old corporates would still run with what works for them.