Uh, at least in my circle of developer and hobbyist friends Elixir and Erlang are blowing up. And reading the front page here, I would think the popularity of Elixir is not some small isolated phenomenon. What past language trends are you thinking of when you provide your source and make that assertion? Curious.

you're joking, right?

https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-elixir-q-java-q-go.html

I'm not so sure, I think go still has a ways to 'go':

https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-elixir-q-java-q-go-q-who....

...or maybe we're reading a bit more into the data than what is really there?

And your go jobs to 'go' along with the data:

https://www.indeed.com/q-go-jobs.html

I'm not sure this graph works very well, I've tried with Javascript and it's below Java, Go and Ruby.

YOU'RE joking, right? Because you're looking at the data entirely wrong. The fact that a relatively new language has a CURRENT fraction of the interest of a more established one is an idiotic comparison to make, all that matters are the rates of change, and I challenge you to find another language with the slope of the "Jobseeker Interest" line on this chart:

https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-elixir.html

For comparison, Go, stagnant: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Go.html

Java, slight increase: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Java.html

Scala is the closest competitor I've found (and it's still not close): https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Scala.html

F#, stagnant: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-F%23.html

Haskell, stagnant: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Haskell.html

Clojure, stagnant: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Clojure.html

Erlang, stagnant: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Erlang.html

Rust, almost stagnant, extremely gentle slope: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Rust.html

Elm is also rising fairly fast, but not as much as Elixir (almost, though): https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Elm.html

So, my point, WITH data: One of these things is not like the other

Here's the kicker: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/q-Clojure-q-Haskell-q-Elixi...

Elixir is about to pass Clojure AND Haskell AND Rust in developer interest, and shows no signs of abating