[6700417]

TIOBE’s methodology and rankings seem very dubious to me. When was the last time you met someone who primarily programs in C? (I was one of those people for 14 years, but that was a while ago).

Red Monk seems much closer to reality: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/07/18/language-rankings-6-1...

[saagarjha]

TIOBE is probably not worth looking too much at, but a number of embedded engineers use C almost exclusively. They’re just not all that visible :)

[panpanna]

> When was the last time you met someone who primarily programs in C?

I am sorry to say, you live in a bubble.

[6700417]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[lykr0n]

There are worlds of software developers outside of the Startup sphere.

[6700417]

I’ve never worked at a startup. I know very few people who have been involved in the startup world. I have exclusively used C and C++ in my professional work (with a tiny bit of python for scripting).

Yet I haven’t know anybody who primarily or even occasionally used C in their work for over a decade. I know they exist but the majority of C programmers moved on to C++ a long time ago.

There are areas like kernel and driver development where C is still in widespread use but these jobs represent a tiny fraction of developers.

Any language popularity metric that ranks C as the second most popular language is massively flawed.