TIOBE programing language popularity ranking site, is misleading (2026)

By Xah Lee. Date: 2026-09-11.

2026-09-11

tiobe programing language popularity ranking site, crooked.

tiobe site, a crooked ranking site for prog langs, for 10 years.
look at it placing visual basic right after javascript, and above sql.
also, fortran is between rust and go. lol.
and after go is pascal. lol.

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