The parent commenter is underestimating the usage of C++, but using TIOBE as an argument serves no purpose, and I wish people would let it die. Their methodology is incoherent, their grasp of statistics is questionable, their information sources are nonsensical and inconsistent, and their weightings are capricious, opaque, and ever-changing. And now consider that their "language of the year" exhibits all of these flaws and more; it's often the case that the language of the year is simply the language that lost the most share at a specific point in the previous year (which happens all the time for no reason at all, because, as mentioned, they have no idea what they're doing). Please do not cite TIOBE in any context.