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>it won the well-deserved award by being the language with the biggest uptick in one year (+1.43%). Runners up are Scratch (+0.83%) and Fortran (+0.64%).

They are the top three of the language of the year award not the index as such.

In the index it's Python, C and C++

Sounds like an award for the highest statistical error of the year.

Tiobe index is just bad, I used to put more faith in Stackoverflow questions, now I just look at subreddit subscription totals or job postings.

They are not too three. They are the three languages with the biggest uptick.