Yes, but with GoPollGo we can see the poll in real time and by geography - will be interesting to see if people in California have different programming language preferences than people in NYC or France.
If you click through my profile, you'll see I'm a dev at GoPollGo. I posted this poll to HN because I enjoy using our product and was genuinely interested in the discussion around programming languages and didn't get many votes from my small Twitter following. Based on >200 votes, the HN audience seems to find this question interesting as well.
Javascript is on there. You could mention C# in comments and people could upvote if they agree. I had to pick 10 based on my assumptions of what is popular. In retrospect C# might have been more popular than Scala.
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Disclosure: I work at GoPollGo.
And this makes your submission look disingenuous. If you want people to look at your stuff, it's fine, but be direct about your motives.