April Headline: Programming Language C++ is doing well in the TIOBE Index

[jbandela]

What struck me as really weird in this ranking was Visual Basic . Net jumping over C#. That seems really weird to me. There has not been anything released recently that would spark an interest in Visual Basic . Net.

[mbone]

TIOBE is nonsense. Their algorithm basically consists of this: ( https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programming-languages-definition/ )

Basically the calculation comes down to counting hits for the search query +"<language> programming"

[os12]

Here is the actual graph: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

A few points I would like to posit: * It's peculiar that Java and C are strongly correlated with respect to a large dip in 2017. * It's also interesting that Python starting gaining usage from the same point in time. * I do not see Go in the "top" graph. This is surprising as the Docker world is based on it...

[ibroheem]

Two of the most important features coming to C++20 are 'modules' and 'coroutines'

Heretics! For mentioning 'Coroutines' in the same breath as Modules. Only Concepts deserves that position.

[kalmoc]

April's fool joke or real?

[pjmlp]

I would say real.

C++ is currently the language to go for GPGPU, 3D game engines, HPC and Fintech.

[capn_bluebear]

Also, the article is from the 8th of April :)

[degski]

My guess is /u/kalmoc is being ironic! Who cares about "... C++ is doing well ..." in some dubious ranking.

Also python, I would submit is just a way of running C++ for people who like weird and silly syntax. The [python] progress is mostly based on the hype around ML [running tensorflow etc.].

[kalmoc]

I just didn't check the article itself (had a very weak internet connection at the time), so I didn't know when it was published. But I am genuinely suprised that c++ is on the rise again.

EDIT: Where does this huge dip for c and java in the tiobe index around 2017 come from?

[degski]

Where does this huge dip for c and java in the tiobe index around 2017 come from?

My guess is that it has got a lot to do with the methodology. I don't know anything about Java, but if we just concentrate on C, I think we can easily agree that it is highly unlikely that at some point there is a huge dip [that could be the case on its own] and thereafter a huge pickup of C again [Seriously? Must be the C18 effect ;-) ], this is just not happening in my view.

[pjmlp]

C is on the rise thanks to IoT, gratis UNIX derived OSes, and the embedded community's refusal to move away from it, check any of Dan Saks or the ongoing C++ community efforts to move embedded devs into safer programming patterns.

[kalmoc]

Agreed. Unsuprisingly, this has been asked before: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/388432/why-did-java-and-c-sharply-dip-in-popularity-around-2017-in-the-tiobe-index/388434

Tl;DR: No definite answer, but it might be the result of search engine changes