Didn't they admit that for every language, the "popularity" is simply the number of Google search results for "<language name> programming", and that, as a spec

Didn't they admit that for every language, the "popularity" is simply the number of Google search results for "<language name> programming", and that, as a special case for Go, they changed it to "golang programming"? A language could be at the top simply because it forces people to ask a lot of questions on StackOverflow. I'd trust GitHub's language activity much more than something like Tiobe -- http://langpop.corger.nl/ http://langpop.corger.nl/