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Flawed. You can't just base language popularity by search engine since not all languages are easily available to the general public. Especially high-end development environments which can only be obtained thru corporate-sponsored training and provisioning. 64.114.212.6 (talk) 20:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)YvrAnalyst[reply]

From the other side, languages that are only available to elite are unlikely to be popular between the wide public, this is that the index shows. It does not show absolute value of the language, amount of money involved in development around it or something the like. Audriusa (talk) 15:10, 7 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I use google search when I want to solve a problem when programming; so I think the most searched language is the one that has the more problems/bugs to solve. --Agreppin (talk) 15:11, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Or it could be that problems/bugs in more popular languages are noticed more often and by more people than problems in less popular ones. --Joshua Issac (talk) 22:39, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree. A point of view as many sides. --Agreppin 15 Nov 2010 —Preceding undated comment added 00:57, 15 November 2010 (UTC).[reply]

What does TIOBE actually stand for, as an acronym? Jubal Kessler (talk) 17:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This article clearly lacks such section.

Suppose, Blahblahsoft Coproration releases new release of their Superduper Studio Professional Enterprise Edition with broken documentation system (quite possible case!), effectively forcing their users to resort to the on-line version of docs, searchable via Poople Inc. It will boost their trends accordingly, and (voila!) TIOBE's "popularity" metric grows, while in reality such a case caused notable percent of users to leave.

If Transact-SQL is the "language of the year", then something is wrong with Tiobe Index. We know what the commonly used languages are, such as C, C++, Objective C, C#, Java, JavaScript, and PHP. Tiobe Index does catch all of those, but that is no great accomplishment. It falls prey to statistical fallacies and variations due to methodology changes, and ends up with a silly conclusion that Transact-SQL is "language of the year". 71.212.48.92 (talk) 05:59, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/Transact_SQL.html - It's interesting that five months after Transact-SQL is "language of the year", it is "back in the doldrums". I have nothing against Transact-SQL, it's just the innocent bystander here. Supposedly, in 2013, Transact-SQL zoomed in popularity from 0.5% to 2.5%, fortuitously peaking at or near the time of judging for "language of the year". Since then, in 2014, it has supposedly plummeted in popularity, returning back to the 1% level by May, 2014. The TIOBE Index has some relationship to popularity, but there seems some very large artifact going on with the methodology. Otherwise, what might the explanation that Transact-SQL supposedly radically changed in popularity, zooming up and then plummeting, within 20 months? I think this might be reflected some in the article. 71.217.113.212 (talk) 17:19, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]