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Why not a link to which languages programmers like the most[1]? It's our field, after all.

Mildly saddened at the “dreaded” percentage on Erlang.

At least you're beating Ruby! I guess programmers don't always have the best tastes, at least according to my Extremely Objective Opinions.

elixir is much nicer in my experience. anything you want to do in erland, you can do in elixiir + you get a lisp like macro system

you are misunderstanding what this data shows.

Am I missing something that isn't in the actual leader paragraph?

> For the sixth-year, Rust is the most loved language, while Python is the most wanted language for its fifth-year.