It’s not the number of search results, but the frequency of events. Admittedly, there isn’t anyone aggregating events and I only looked for the most recent 3 before stopping. I’m sure there’s some insider who’s better positioned to tell the history of the language and the community.

I tried Java. Most of the hits are on sentences like "slowed down dramatically", "changed dramatically", and "latency shifts dramatically under load". There are also:

"So, upon hearing that the .net foundation is spending all of its time generating stacks of bureaucracy and causing internal drama"

"Oracle provides RHEL build and it's pretty good. No CentOS drama, it's free and just works."

"I'd be surprised if you found any dramas with the language."

There's no actual drama. Until page 4, when i find:

"Completely a drama"

In an article about Rust.

I dont remember any drama on Python, Java, C++ or JS on HN.

But I remember a lot of drama on Ruby and Rust.

No kidding. It’s not a curated dataset, obviously. I looked through a few pages and filtered out the most recent few actual dramas:

1) Rust in the Linux kernel 2) Amazon MUST NOT define Rust 3) Turbofish issue

So, yeah, you have to do a bit more work to pull events from Algolia. It’s better than a feeling though and it’s real timestamped data. It’s not Google or Wikipedia though- the most relevant results aren’t just on page 1.