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Re:Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir by matt_s on Monday May 22, 2017 @08:26AM (#14392955)
SO shouldn't be used as a gauge of popularity of a language or framework. Well established languages/frameworks will not see a lot of new questions being posted there since they have an established set of answers. Newer frameworks/languages will see a lot more activity there building up a base set of questions/answers.

The other angle that SO can misrepresent is that inexperienced developers are using the site more than experienced devs. If you know your language/framework/libraries pretty well, then you are mostly going other places for help like API docs or maybe directly to the Github repo for a library and asking committers since you are much deeper into the language.

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Re:Building a Reddit-like site after 3-4 months learning Elixir by partisan on Monday May 22, 2017 @09:20AM (#14393301)
Another reason could be that SO itself is trending downward. I know that there are people, like myself, who don't often use it or who just use it as part of a set of google results for the topic they are researching.
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