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> Sure.

Cool. I'm glad you agree. Given that we're talking about a particular entirely-avoidable footgun, there's nothing more to be said.

> TIOBE

Oh boy, there are assloads of very valid critcism of TIOBE's popcon. You should take a look at their methodology some time:

> Since there are many questions about the way the TIOBE index is assembled, a special page is devoted to its definition. Basically the calculation comes down to counting hits for the search query +"<language> programming"

See [0] for more embarrassing details.

> And whiteboards don't give two fucks about whitespace.

Given that you're late-career, you may be unaware that very many interviews are done remotely these days. So, no, whiteboards absolutely do give many fucks about whitespace these days.

[0] <https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/programminglanguages_defin...>



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