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Fortran used to be more popular. However, TIOBE is a lacking indicator, as stated here: http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html (do a in-page-search with "Why is PYPL so different from TIOBE ?") Some other indicators such as Redmonk ( https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2019/03/20/language-rankings-1-1... ) show that both Dart and Rust are more popular than Fortran. (Although each of them have their own set of biases.)

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I think you mean lagging indicator.

Any sufficiently lagging indicator is also a lacking indicator.

While the page they link to uses "lagging", "lacking" actually seems to fit better with the context it's used in there:

The paragraph it's used in ("Why is PYPL so different from TIOBE ?") seems to argue that TIOBE is lacking, not lagging.

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