I am probably wrong but I think all this conversation are heavily biased because: 1) it's mostly US centric 2) it's mostly Silicon Valley centric Surveys say

I am probably wrong but I think all this conversation are heavily biased because: 1) it's mostly US centric 2) it's mostly Silicon Valley centric Surveys say nothing because they are heavily biased, Google Trends too. While we are discussing Rust vs Go, Python vs Ruby or whatever language is brought on the table, companies around the world are making millions with PHP and many other languages considered legacy. At the end of day, we don't realize that the language and other tools we select to do our jobs are influenced not by how useful they are to solve our problems but how much they increase our chances to get a new job. We disguise our choices as technical choices but they are not, they are, indeed, just our preferences biased towards our necessity to find better jobs.