People do so much advanced analysis with these outrageously biased datasets (this says nothing about "developers", this has analysis of "developers who put repos on github, skewed towards prolific repo creators")
Yes, it's the only dataset you have. You still sound dumb when you inflate the importance of the population you have data for to make the anlaysis sound more useful.
Relax, it's just a blog post from a "machine learning intern", and sounds like just the kind of project you'd give an intern for experience.
Anyway the first paragraph also says:
Thus, it has become engaging to deepen this idea and see how the popularity of languages changes among GitHub users.
I don't get the sense anyone is trying to inflate the importance of anything.
Yes, it's the only dataset you have. You still sound dumb when you inflate the importance of the population you have data for to make the anlaysis sound more useful.