This presents a strong case, IMO. And taking in account that studies have been made suggesting that language choice has little to no correlation with number of

This presents a strong case, IMO. And taking in account that studies have been made suggesting that language choice has little to no correlation with number of bugs[1], it would make sense that recency bias plays a part in, well, preference in technologies. I'm interested in the outliers though: Both the ones among the loved brownfield languages, and the ones present in both loved and dreaded lists. I feel like programming language designers, people in charge of choosing the stack for new projects, and people considering renovating legacy codebases can learn a lot about what to do and what not to do from those. [1]: Though that one ended up in a flame-war, like discussion on programming languages tend to do. Apparently not even academia is safe.