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by baddox 5887 days ago
Perhaps as more languages become popular (i.e. the "market" becomes more diverse), any one traditionally popular language is becoming less popular. If there's exactly 1000 programmers and each searches for a single language per day, then the introduction of a new language will "steal" a search from another language. There's bound to be some languages with increasing or steady trends:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=F%23,+clojure,+groovy,+lua&#3...