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Re:C++ was the fastest growing programming language in Sept ... by shagie on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @11:42AM (#24422225)
> It is an interesting metric, but I just can't bring myself to see it as the measure of popularity that it is presented as.

It has been gamed in the past. For example, http://delphi.org/2008/10/the-many-faces-of-delphi/ and http://delphi.org/2008/10/delphi-keeps-climbing/

There have been other blips in the past caused by documentation for a project getting moved to a different server and in doing so the SEO for the material (inadvertently) changed.

TIOBE measures the SEO for different programming languages, nothing more.

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