The biggest thing that draws this into question for me is the fact that Visual Basic and Javascript supposedly dropped by the similar amounts.... ??

Among a dozen other languages, I still frequently develop in VB as I have a huge code library for it (crawling back into the 90's) and it still works well as a general Swiss Army knife tool. I have seen the community plummet though and of course it's rapidly fading in it's significance.

Javascript however is on a meteoric rise development wise. It seems it is being adapted to anything possible and I see regular talk of it being used server side now too.

Yet supposedly they both dropped similar amounts? I'm surprised VB didn't drop more, and Javascript "dropped" at all.