[ogoffart]

Of course Rust can handle those use cases fine (GUIs, web browsers, and game engines).

C++ is still high on the TIOBE index mainly because it is indeed old and used in a lot of legacy systems. For new projects, though, there's less reason to choose C++.

[Calavar]

Web browsers, yes. With GUIs and games, it's a less clear. Of course you can write GUIs and games in any Turing complete language but there's still a lot of work to be done in finding the right ergonomics in Rust [1, 2].

[1] https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-building-a-ui-in-rust-so-ha...

[2] https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/

[koakuma-chan]

You are saying "With GUIs and games" as if there is any GUI framework or game engine that doesn't suck.

[drnick1]

It's still high because it solves real world problems, so it's still the gold standard for anything ranging from systems programming to scientific computing.