Now remind me of every time you said Tiobe didn't matter when we pointed out Rust wasn't in the top 10 :)
I'm more interested in that massive collapse in python over the past year. Is it due to everyone running for the doors just before the AI bubble pops? Or did AI make rewriting everything Python into Rust a reality perhaps?
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.
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.
The chart shows python really surged in popularity in the 2020s. I suppose the change is surge is from AI/ML really heating up for a few years, and is now starting to cool off.
RIP Object Pascal, the Python of your day, except much faster and much more readable.
Now remind me of every time you said Tiobe didn't matter when we pointed out Rust wasn't in the top 10 :)
I'm more interested in that massive collapse in python over the past year. Is it due to everyone running for the doors just before the AI bubble pops? Or did AI make rewriting everything Python into Rust a reality perhaps?
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.
> 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_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.
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-2...
This is usually considered a better ranking. This has Rust at #20.
Oh, thanks for the info. That's suprisingly a weird index to measure usage popularity...
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.
Scratch at #12 is even stranger. It's not even a programming language.
It's sort of a programming language. But not a particularly general-purpose one.
The chart shows python really surged in popularity in the 2020s. I suppose the change is surge is from AI/ML really heating up for a few years, and is now starting to cool off.