I would venture as far as to say that the most popular languages might not be the most used by software engineers, as in, people this kind of article would be aimed at.
I'm not fully sure what this means but perhaps you're right about Python given its use by data engineers, academics, SREs (though they're mainly Go these days ... which also lacks fully stable native SIMD support). Otherwise though I'd say the rest are used almost exclusively by software engineers. Unless I'm misunderstanding you.