TIOBE was manipulated by the Delphi community - http://delphi.org/2008/10/delphi-keeps-climbing/
That’s why it’s so high even today.
That’s why it’s so high even today.
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.
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?
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.
No Delphi in top 50.