This looks dubious to me. Not least do to the healthy flow of people moving from other languages to Visual Basic. Also byte flow makes little sense for program

This looks dubious to me. Not least do to the healthy flow of people moving from other languages to Visual Basic. Also byte flow makes little sense for programming languages. lower level languages are going to be more verbose than high level languages. They'll be used for different things. Some will have tonnes of boilerplate that travels with the project (e.g java). Forked projects? etc. Further, to me it seems that this ought to be a more descriptive thing of how something happened in the past and not subject to probability unless the claim is a prediction about next years conversions between languages or that conversions are stationary over time. I.e a set of metrics that proxy transitions and an order list of from and to, would be just the ticket IMO.