Is the existence of a BASIC-to-Pascal or C-to-Go translator evidence that people would rather write BASIC than Pascal, and C to Go? And there's been both Java-to-C# and C#-to-Java converters, so I guess people there are unhappy no matter which they pick.
A lot of them are newer versions or slightly modified versions of JS.
Which supports the point.
A lot of them seem like experimental languages that nobody would actually use in production