[Ygg2]

Very roughly, TIOBE gives you search popularity of a given language. So Ada is climbing some popularity chart. The question is what?

[nindalf]

> TIOBE gives you search popularity of a given language

No it does not. It gives you the number of results returned by a search engine, which has nothing to do with how many people are searching for that term.

[Ygg2]

It definitely gives some sort of correlation to it. Otherwise, you wouldn't get Python at #1 for several years, in line with other metrics.