[DasIch]

Rust is more popular than all of these languages except swift combined. So it seems empirically that ergonomics and expressiveness don't matter that much or these languages don't manage to do significantly better than rust.

[pjmlp]

It appears more popular, which isn't the same thing.

[tialaramex]

If you have better metrics then that's interesting, otherwise it just looks bitter.

Yeah, maybe chicken nuggets only appear more popular than broccoli. But I think since we don't have any actual evidence to say otherwise we can assume that's because they are in fact more popular than broccoli.