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		mike_hearn on April 14, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity It would also see to penalize languages whose developers are more likely to be using AI.

lolinder on April 14, 2025 [–]

Kind of. It doesn't measure search traffic, it measures search results. So I could see it doing that to the extent that fewer articles may be being written in certain communities than before.

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