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Great read, but I think it's a few years too late. When you compare how PHP is trending against languages like Python it's following a similar path as perl, https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=php%2C%20javascript%... - I'm surprised JavaScript isn't having much of an upturn lately.

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On a side note, Monty Python (or the snake) are not programming languages. Check the "Related searches" section at the bottom and click "Python".

Silly me. I forget that not everybody lives in the world of development. Considering this it seems every language is experiencing a downturn. To me this looks more like a fault in Google's trend calculation. Maybe it doesn't consider search inflation from year to year.

Using the same kind of metric, certain male bodyparts seem to be trending as programming lang. as well.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=php%2C%20javascript%...

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