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Kyle Davis Aug 31, 2025

I was recently pointed to the TIOBE index. I've, of course, been aware of it for years (decades?) but the results are way different from what my educated guesses would be:

- VB at 7
- #Pascal at 10
- #Ada at 13
- #PHP at 15
- #Rustlang at 18

#Zig doesn't rank in the top 50.

Does this seem super weird to anyone else? Am I just biased or does this not reflect anything from this decade? It feels like it overly weights legacy languages and ignores project starts.

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

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Michał Fita

@linux_mclinuxface Methodology of TIOBE index is subject of controversy for the long time and the fact #Rust has great docs.rs as reference with own search engine may take away Rust's point as people simply search less. Add the fact there's a game called Rust that may steal search results in statistics.

On #RedMonk index #Pascal and #Perl are significantly lower. Rust retains the position.