I think this applies to Rust as well. I like Rust and would like to use it more, but I think (because it's so good) more people have heard good things about it

I think this applies to Rust as well. I like Rust and would like to use it more, but I think (because it's so good) more people have heard good things about it than have actually used it in anger, which has the potential to inflate these rankings. Similarly, I love Go, and back in the day it probably performed very well on these ratings when everyone only knew it as "the language that promises easy concurrency" (you know, 5 minutes before news broke that it had a garbage collector, no generics, and it wasn't thus a True Systems Language / No One Can Build Useful Software With It at which point everyone got out their pitchforks).