To my mind, the big trend is toward polygot programming, which perhaps reveals what a transitional and perhaps revolutionary time this is in the world of computer programming. This paragraph struck me as the most important:
"Almost every language shows a long-term downhill trend... My initial guess is that users of languages below the top 12 are growing in share to counterbalance the decreases here. It’s also possible that GitHub may leave some users unclassified, which would tend to lower everything else’s proportion over time."
"Almost every language shows a long-term downhill trend... My initial guess is that users of languages below the top 12 are growing in share to counterbalance the decreases here. It’s also possible that GitHub may leave some users unclassified, which would tend to lower everything else’s proportion over time."