Comment by mscbuck

Not that TIOBE or PyPl are the end all be all, but R was in the Top 10 for the first time since 2020 and PyPl has it at #4. A lot of people use R in 2026, because it's still great for data science work, "tidy" language is still fantastic for working with data, and also it's caught up to Python in almost every way when it comes to putting models into production. Both are great "orchestrator" languages, and I've put both into production on sites that get hundreds of thousands of hits a day.