SQL had a somewhat unusual journey in the TIOBE Index. In 2004, due to debates about whether SQL counted as a programming language at all, Jansen removed it from the index.

In this month’s TIOBE Programming Community Index, the top three programming languages are Python, C and C++.Python dropped slightly in popularity, losing 3.02%, according to the index’s ...

Elsewhere in the Tiobe index for 2024, the C language declined in popularity and was surpassed by C++ and Java. The main reason for this was that C was replaced by C++ in a lot of embedded systems ...

Tiobe index is controversial. When calculating the index, the operators want to evaluate the number of engineers, courses, and service providers that use a programming language.

Now, judging from the August update to the TIOBE Index, it looks like C — the legendary programming language invented in 1972 and still widely used — is showing signs of being left behind as ...

Elsewhere in Tiobe’s ratings, Go is a rising star this month, ranking 20th after placing 95th the same time last year. It has a rating of 1.27 percent in the current index.

There’s a huge amount of criticism towards the TIOBE index, especially as it uses one query and doesn’t consider non-English languages.

Java earned an "all-time low score" in the latest TIOBE Programming Community Index, along with C, and yet the two programming languages retained the top two spots, ranking first and second, ...

The TIOBE Index, which ranks programming language popularity, has named Objective-C its language of the year for 2012, the second year in a row it has won.

I looked at the TIOBE index today, as I do every so often, as most of the software pros I know do every so often. It purports to measure the popularity of the world’s programming languages, and ...