How programmers transition between languages

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

While this analysis of language popularity on Github is 
enlightening:

http://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-languages-by-github-users/

I found the older analysis of how programmers transition (or 
adopt new languages) more interesting:

https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/

Like how people move from Rust to Go. And from Go to Python:

https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/sum_matrix_22lang_eig.svg


Also the growth of Java is larger than I would anticipate:

https://blog.sourced.tech/post/language_migrations/eigenvect_stack_22lang.png

Granted, Java has gotten quite a few convenience features over 
the years.