Rust is in TIOBE Index top 10

Rust is in TIOBE Index top 10(tiobe.com)

8 points by zdkaster 3 hours ago | 1 comment

panny 2 hours ago |

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?

zdkaster 48 minutes ago | |

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 3 minutes 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_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.