How programmers transition between languages

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Friday, 26 January 2018 at 17:24:54 UTC, Benny wrote:
> What i found interesting is the comparison between the "newer" 
> languages and D ( see the reddit thread ).
>
> 9   Go      4.1022
> 15  Kotlin  1.2798
> 18  Rust    0.7317
> 35  Julia   0.0900
> 46  Vala    0.0665
> 50  Crystal 0.0498
> 53  D       0.047%
>
> While i can understand Rust ( Mozilla ), Kotlin ( Jetbrain ), 
> Go ( Google ).
> Even Vala and Crystal are ranked higher then D.

Yes, those stats are interesting too, but Go seems to do much 
better than Rust. And if the trend is that people move from  Rust 
to Go and from Go to Python it might mean that people might start 
out trying out new languages with performance goals in mind, but 
eventually go for productivity when they realize that they pay a 
fairly high price for those performance gains? Anyway, with 
Python 3.6 you get fairly good type annotation capabilities which 
allows static type checking that  is closing on what you get with 
statically typed languages.  Maybe that is a factor too.