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There is a very interesting distribution of programming languages for the emacs users that answered: Python first, bash/sh second, then web related, systems, and popular or rising languages, down to R, lisp, assembly, Common Lisp (I assume) and c#. It shows the breadth, power, and extensibility of such a nicely designed tool, when most languages in the list were invented after the Emacs editor.

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I imagined C and C++ to be the language Emacs is most used for but I was wrong by a long shot. No idea Python was THAT popular for Emacs users. I primarily use C# with Emacs and if I just use it as a text editor then it's fine, but doing an entire C# project in Emacs imo is straight up impossible. I still have to use Visual Studio for project management, adding NuGet packages, unit tests, builds, SVN for work (I just use Magit for my own stuff), and whatever Microsoft-made BS that comes up (had a JSON parsing error yesterday, tried to fix it for 20 minutes without success, blindly ran the project again and now it's magically fixed). I can see why C# is at the bottom of the Emacs usage list.

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