You can use github as a decent judge of this I think. You're not going to find any absolutes as to the potential popularity of a language, but I'd recommend no

You can use github as a decent judge of this I think. You're not going to find any absolutes as to the potential popularity of a language, but I'd recommend not jumping on the next new thing. Go with something that has at least a few years behind it. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia https://github.com/rails/rails https://github.com/rails/rails https://github.com/scala/scala https://github.com/scala/scala https://github.com/joyent/node https://github.com/joyent/node https://github.com/ruby/ruby https://github.com/ruby/ruby https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra