As TIOBE uses averaged, relative search engine hits for "[programming language name] programming" as its source, it's a significantly lagging indicator, since it counts all pages on the internet equally, regardless of their age. I'm also unsure of the precision of the search "C programming". I suspect that it's catching "C++" in some search engines.

Stack Overflow's annual survey puts JavaScript, SQL, and Python at the top, with C at 12th [0]. RedMonk's Top 20 puts JavaScript, Python, and Java at the top, with C in 10th [1]. ITJobsWatch puts JavaScript, SQL, and C# at top, with C at 9th [2]. Dice puts SQL, Java, and Python as its top 3, with C not even ranking in their top 12 [3]. All of those put JavaScript, Java, and Python in the top 5.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-...

[1] https://redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick/2021/03/02/redmonk-top-20-l...

[2] https://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/default.aspx?ql=&ll=&id=900&p=...

[3] https://insights.dice.com/2021/01/05/top-12-programming-lang...

Google "the problem with typescript", there are people who don't like it. I don't know how many they are but saying "no one" is silly.

You need to get out more. =)

I only use TypeScript on projects written from scratch for TypeScript, like Angular.

On personal projects I only want to deal with builtin browser technologies, there is no npm, webpack, tsc, yarn, whatever, just plain <script/> tags.

I broadly prefer JavaScript to TypeScript. TypeScript has it's place and is certainly useful in some scenarios (it's union type is so powerful) but I don't think I'd ever plan on coding exclusively in it. I've written code in OCaml and Rust too so I know what a good type system can do.

I think at least for UI work there is a lot of space for dynamic plumbing together of well typed components. Components in this case meaning actual UI components as well as modules of business logic or state management.

I have never wanted to go TypeScript in first place.