"Long term projections" meaning, projecting a language's popularity in a decade or so? The SO developer survey and others [0] [1] [2] have been around long eno

"Long term projections" meaning, projecting a language's popularity in a decade or so? The SO developer survey and others [0] [1] [2] have been around long enough to notice trends, but projection - whether in economics, sports, or the weather - is of course about much more than trends. Personally I would seek out the advice of as many trusted greybeards as I had access to; experience counts more than math and statistics. Also, if your research is for the purpose of guiding current decisions (you didn't say this explicitly but I picked up an implicit need) be aware of black swan events [3]. [0] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/ https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2022/ [1] https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-23/ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2... [2] https://www.codingdojo.com/blog/top-programming-languages https://www.codingdojo.com/blog/top-programming-languages [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory