[mikeryan]

But the TIOBE index doesn't measure developer support.

"The ratings are calculated by counting hits of the most popular search engines. The search query that is used is

    +"<language> programming"

The search query is executed for the regular Google, Google Blogs, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube web search for the last 12 months. The web site Alexa.com has been used to determine the most popular search engines."

Go has had a lot of press in the last few months but TIOBE doesn't really mean anything else. It's an interest index not a usage index.