[sogrady]

This is more or less our position. COBOL has never been ranked, for example, because COBOL isn't highly visible on GitHub or Stack Overflow. The last time we checked, for example, COBOL was present in 11 total repositories on GH.

Which obviously stands in contrast to the reality that there are many enterprise systems - some of them mission critical - still running on the platform.

But from our perspective, that tells us less about what might be used moving forward than what is actively being discussed and written in by developers on the platforms we survey.

So no, we would not argue that these rankings accurately reflect the current distribution of languages within large enterprises. We do feel that the actions of a large number of developers from two different properties has the opportunity to be more predictive, however.