Python users must be happy to see this month’s TIOBE Index, while R users might have felt sad about R’s ranking. There has been criticism on the TIOBE Index. I, for one, don’t like this index, but not because R’s ranking dropped this month. Even if it ranks R as the most “popular” programming language, I’d still be skeptical (well, I guess everyone would).

The main reason I don’t like this index is that the effort behind the index …