I have defined "new language" in my comment as one so new that no significant projects exist in that language, not as one which is newer than C but still arbitrarily old.
> if you happen to do your measurements after a language has had some uptake but before it's been around for long enough that people have built significant projects on it and subsequently gotten sick of it
By this definition, it is not possible to switch from a new language to anything.
It's stated as a binary, but really this defines a continuum of newness, and the metric of the OP is very sensitive to it.
> if you happen to do your measurements after a language has had some uptake but before it's been around for long enough that people have built significant projects on it and subsequently gotten sick of it
By this definition, it is not possible to switch from a new language to anything.
It's stated as a binary, but really this defines a continuum of newness, and the metric of the OP is very sensitive to it.