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by insane_dreamer 659 days ago
The questions in that survey are poorly worded so as to make the results ambiguous, since they confound 1) languages in which X person has worked with in the past year, with 2) languages in which X person would like to work on next year. These express two very different concepts: 1) popularity in the workplace, 2) developers' personal preferences. (Neither of them have to do with the most "admired".