I think that it's always worth remembering the iceberg effect when we talk about trends: the silent majority of developers don't comment on HN or Reddit, don't

I think that it's always worth remembering the iceberg effect when we talk about trends: the silent majority of developers don't comment on HN or Reddit, don't answer questions on Stack Overflow, don't publish code on GitHub, and are using the same un-hip stacks year-on-year (Java, C#, PHP, maybe Rails, jQuery or Angular). The C# developers that I have spoken to have used Angular for years, like TypeScript, and reach for Angular + TS by default, rather than React + ES6/7. Plenty of Rails developers stick with jQuery, maybe with some CoffeeScript: Rails only "modernized" their JS stack a few months ago.