> SO questions would correlate with languages that are harder/less intuitive, rather than necessarily popular People repeat this a lot because it sounds reason

> SO questions would correlate with languages that are harder/less intuitive, rather than necessarily popular People repeat this a lot because it sounds reasonable, but I don't see why it has to be the case. I would expect popularity to still dominate the SO question signal even if a handful of experts aren't asking questions on SO because they can RTFM. Newcomers to a language seem to ask a lot of questions no matter what, so bad SO signal seems to mean decreasing popularity. Also, the biggest questions on SO are super basic questions that not even the most intuitive, best documented language can escape. I don't see good evidence for the claim.