How programmers transition between languages

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Sunday, 28 January 2018 at 13:50:03 UTC, Michael wrote:
> I find it fascinating that C# is in the "languages to avoid" 
> section, because from my perspective it's receiving more and 
> more adoption as the modern alternative to Java, in a way that 
> Go and Rust are not. Different markets and all of that. So I 
> can't see why C# would be seen as a language that is dropping 
> in popularity (though I don't use it myself).

I don't think the data suggests that? A small dip, perhaps, as it 
is less relevant outside Microsoft desktop. But the transition 
matrix suggests that people move a bit between Java and C# and 
that people move from Pascal and Visual Basic to C#.

I suspect some projects move from C# to TypeScript, though.

> I do worry that, having been using D for about 3 1/2 years now, 
> that the perceptions of D outside of this community don't seem 
> to be changing much.

But D isn't changing either...