Will AI Mean Bring an End to Top Programming Language Rankings?

IEEE Spectrum ranks the popularity of programming languages — but is there a problem? Programmers “are turning away from many of these public expressions of interest. Rather than page through a book or search a website like Stack Exchange for answers to their questions, they’ll chat with an LLM like Claude or ChatGPT in a private conversation.”

And with an AI assistant like Cursor helping to write code, the need to pose questions in the first place is significantly…