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sramsay

You would recommend a language below Scratch and a language below COBOL (Kotlin) on the TIOBE index?

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How is a language's ranking on an arbitrary list at all relevant?

You may disagree with the way the TIOBE index is compiled, but it's hardly "arbitrary."

If you are using a popularity contest to choose your tooling you are choosing your tooling incorrectly.

Also it seems it would be helpful for you to read this: https://blog.nindalf.com/posts/stop-citing-tiobe/

OP is asking specifically about being highly employable. In that context, popularity is pretty directly relevant.

Yes, I would and if you want to use the TIOBE index as a guide you can use the following reasoning to justify the choice:

Rust is the spiritual successor for #2 (C) and #4 (C++), while Kotlin is that for #3 (Java). All three of those are showing their age and in a downwards trend.

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