I would argue most people working software jobs either haven't heard of TIOBE or don't care about it. I only occasionally hear about it from strange internet comments that are far too focused on language particulars.
That is surprising. I heard about the TIOBE index often about 15 years ago, but now that I think about it, I have not heard about it lately. I wonder if the rise of Python and ML has caused people to stop asking “what language should I learn”. That is the question the TIOBE index often was cited to answer.
