OK Stackoverflow, that's enough charticles about this language or that, and which one's growing and which one gets used by whom at what time of day and in relat

OK Stackoverflow, that's enough charticles about this language or that, and which one's growing and which one gets used by whom at what time of day and in relation to which other query etc. It's like they didn't expect the attention they got for these, and now they're addicted to it. Nothing against Python... because if anything my underlying point might be that language doesn't ultimately matter that much. But besides, there still remains the same question as always: Doesn't the posing of Stackoverflow questions tend to reflect more who's starting to use a language, than the sum total of who uses it per se? (Since presumably questions taper off with time.) If you're measuring growth or adoption, as in this case, sure, it might seem like a reasonable approximation, but it doesn't tell you anything about long-term use (by people who become experts and stop visiting Stackoverflow) or about attrition (people who quit using it and move on to something else). Thus any trend Stackoverflow can see, probably overemphasizes short-term phenomena. Which is great if you're doing algorithmic trading on the stock market and make your money by responding to the market's every short-term boom & bust (and other investors' overconfidence & diaper-crappings respectively), but not so great if you're choosing a language to which you'll devote months of study.