alt Hacker NewsPlease for God's sake stop citing TIOBE.
A much more accurate snapshot would be Github - they recently published the top langauges for the year (so far, up til Sept 2026) by distinct monthly contributors and C++ comes in at 9 out of the top 10, and Rust doesn't even place in the top 10 yet, so yes it is highly relevant and prevalent, but not because TIOBE said so.
But, TypeScript, Python and Rust are the fastest growing languages, in that order, so also you cannot discount Rust.
https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-commit...
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gmueckl • today at 9:38 AM
Github is also skewed because it only captures a subset of open source projects, and open source is realistically a teeny tiny fraction of the world's written code.
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You didn't mention why people shouldn't cite TIOBE so I checked. It's because they measure search engine queries to assess popularity. GitHub measures actual code usage in real repos.
I agree the GitHub methodology seems better. I don't think TIOBE methods mean that it's ranking is completely irrelevant but it'll be noisy and you could easily game it.