OT: Tiobe Index - December Headline: What is happening to good old language C?

[Nick B via Digitalmars-d]

The programming language of all programming languages C is 
consistently going down since November 2015. The language was in 
a range of 15% to 20% for more than 15 years and this year it 
suddenly started to suffer. Its ratings are now less than 10% and 
there is no clear way back to the top. So what happened to C? 
Some months ago we already listed some possible reasons: it is 
not a language that you think of while writing programs for 
popular fields such as mobile apps or websites, it is not 
evolving that much and there is no big company promoting the 
language. May be there are more reasons. If you happen to know 
one, please share it with us.

source: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/   (Dec 2016)

cheers
Nick