The inclusion of Delphi, a basically dead language, always made it obvious that Tiobe was terribly inaccurate.
I actually checked indeed for jobs and found around three, nationwide.
There are tons of references to Delphi on google and indeed, but they are almost all for other companies named Delphi, like the auto parts maker. Hardly any for the language.
It's more that TIOBE is hugely controversial in the Delphi community because they won't count Delphi. There have been multiple campaigns to get the language represented "accurately" (for an inaccurate index.) No matter how inaccurate TIOBE is, if it doesn't add its own measurements which are applicable to a specific language, even by comparison with its own data it becomes inaccurate.
Not sure what beef the TIOBE people have against Delphi. But what you saw 14 years ago was community action: these days it's moved to community protest... or, like this article, just ignoring TIOBE altogether.
What do you mean "won't count Delphi"? It's obviously severely over counting Delphi.
A quick check of indeed shows one job with Delphi as a nice to have within 100 miles of San Jose. For python, 11000. Ruby, 559.
"Delphi programming" on google, the string that the delphi has been trying to push, gets 127,000 hits on google, "python programming" gets 17,100,000
In computer science, Amazon shows 600 delphi books, with the top book having a sales rank (lower is better) of 1,600,000. Python, too many to count (says over 10000) top sales rank 1000. Ruby, just below Delphi in Tiobe, over 10000, sales rank 800,000
So, basically: no google hits, no book sales and no jobs. How is that number 16?
Just delusional. They justified their manipulation of a useless index by convincing themselves they were just preventing undercounting. It’s BS.
What’s worse is that the language clearly failed to provide any compelling reason to use it and died a slow death. This manipulation was evidently their best attempt at showing the language was worthwhile.
I actually checked indeed for jobs and found around three, nationwide.
There are tons of references to Delphi on google and indeed, but they are almost all for other companies named Delphi, like the auto parts maker. Hardly any for the language.
Tiobe isn't even trying.