This is interesting. I imagine given the readership and focus of HN its more indicate of what languages will be popular in the future than the Stack Overflow / Github listings.
I wouldn't be that sure whether it is any more likely to hit than any other prognosticator. For every Go or Rust that gets a lot of play here, there's a D, or Nim, or Crystal, or Pony, or a half-dozen promising upstarts that never amount to anything. There's also perennial interest in esoteric academic languages, and productive but niche languages that will never go mainstream, like Haskell and Lisps.
I think "popular" is the wrong adjective to describe what these numbers really indicate.
For example I believe electron is being discussed more, because its more controversial than classic UI frameworks. That does not mean it is more popular.
The hnprofile tool also does sentiment analysis if you want to compare that. Seems like over the last year electron discussions were indeed much less favorable than qt discussions.
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It reads like a badly written resume.
For example I believe electron is being discussed more, because its more controversial than classic UI frameworks. That does not mean it is more popular.
Ruby on rails gets its own post about whether its dead or not, about once every few months
NodeJS is not a framework its a language, but I guess you mean NodeJS + Express.
2. SQL as #2? Shocking.
3. Open Source is dominating.