Well, I'm not actually basing this on the surveys, which are better indicators of industrial prominence than they are of fads (thank goodness). A lot of what I wrote about in this article (which is over a year old, mind you) was based on conversations I was encountering in the programming world. I was actually hearing a lot of "Python? Bah - use Haskell" at the time. That has since switched. I think Haskell fell out of fad status for the moment.
You are correct that Python and Java are very common languages, but when I wrote this, they weren't necessarily the trendy languages. Python has had a bit of a recent resurgence in fad-popularity in the past year, especially in the data sciences. Once again, everyone wants to build everything in Python.
Meanwhile, Java continues to gain a reputation as slow and clunky. Even today, among the trendites, you're going to hear "don't use Java, use Go!" and such fad-based nonsense, and that's more my point.
I can't stress enough, fads aren't necessarily directly related to a language's industrial prominence...C++ has also been one of the top 5 languages for years, but it's NOT trendy by most assessments. That's exactly the point of the article: fads aren't actually rooted in anything more than the subjective obsession with the newest, shiniest toy.
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Well, I'm not actually basing this on the surveys, which are better indicators of industrial prominence than they are of fads (thank goodness). A lot of what I wrote about in this article (which is over a year old, mind you) was based on conversations I was encountering in the programming world. I was actually hearing a lot of "Python? Bah - use Haskell" at the time. That has since switched. I think Haskell fell out of fad status for the moment.
You are correct that Python and Java are very common languages, but when I wrote this, they weren't necessarily the trendy languages. Python has had a bit of a recent resurgence in fad-popularity in the past year, especially in the data sciences. Once again, everyone wants to build everything in Python.
Meanwhile, Java continues to gain a reputation as slow and clunky. Even today, among the trendites, you're going to hear "don't use Java, use Go!" and such fad-based nonsense, and that's more my point.
I can't stress enough, fads aren't necessarily directly related to a language's industrial prominence...C++ has also been one of the top 5 languages for years, but it's NOT trendy by most assessments. That's exactly the point of the article: fads aren't actually rooted in anything more than the subjective obsession with the newest, shiniest toy.