Ask HN: Why are programming lang ranks on StackOverflow and Tiobe so divergent?
Most popular languages according to StackOverflow  2020 Survey: JavaScript, and C is way down below.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;survey&#x2F;2020#technology-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages-all-respondents<p>While in TIOBE index, which is based on search engine traffic, C just overtook Java. These two have been the top two languages since 2002.<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiobe.com&#x2F;tiobe-index&#x2F;<p>How that can be explained?<p>Note that I am asking which language is better. I am trying to understand why these two are so different. Because how what programmers tell in a survey be so different from what they google?