That’s the worst possible answer to my question - unless you believe that visual basic is ahead of javascript, as TIOBE once proudly showed.

Honestly, just forget about it entirely, random.org reordering a list of PLs would be more accurate than that.

If you are interested, here is a ranking that has some relevance to the real world: https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2...