[drawkbox]

> TIOBE measures the sheer quantity of search engine hits. PYPL measures how often language tutorials are Googled.

Popularity by who searches for language help like Java or C/C++ is mostly because those are more difficult languages with bigger, historical sprawl and frameworks.

Just using searching for popularity is skewed because people search more so for things they don't know, than ones they do, and harder languages will probably be more searched. Same with tutorials, it only shows what people are learning. However it is somewhat valid in that even languages you use daily you end up searching for solutions and information on docs, community, etc.

The github and repo stats probably give a bigger picture of popularity combined with searching and surveys.

Side note: Personally I think everyone should learn C/C++ and maybe a functional language or a dynamic language like Python in addition to their main languages. Learning C/C++ and building in it is closer to the metal, has memory management and every language you learn after is less difficult. I do love C++ for game development but it helps with learning all other languages as well as all other languages difficulty is downhill from it, and is especially great for memory management, stack/heap understanding, value/reference understanding and C/C++ is empowering in the power/speed of the platforms. To this day still most apps are built with C/C++ under the hood whether directly, exported to or in a virtual machine that is built in it. For highly performant apps/code/systems C/C++ still are king.

[Roboprog]

C++: it feels so good when the beating stops

Maybe object Pascal or rust for the less masochistic?

I’m ok with C if need be.