You do not sound condescending at all! While it's true that popularity does not equal quality, one should be careful to go full tilt in the other direction and

You do not sound condescending at all! While it's true that popularity does not equal quality, one should be careful to go full tilt in the other direction and assert that non popularity means quality. Objective C and Smalltalk were decent languages twenty years ago, but terrible languages by today's modern standards, starting with the fact that they're both dynamically typed, which we know today, is an evolutionary dead end in PLT.