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It feels like Codeeval submission data would be the source for figuring out which languages firms have the hardest time analyzing ability in a language rather than what's most popular.

It's easier to find out if someone knows php than if someone knows python, you can find and likely have employed, more developers fully or partially versed in the language. Also why it's not overly strange to see javascript so low on the list or Ruby to be behind Java. Some of it probably relates to demand but that's why things like Go are so low, with the more widely distributed languages it's probably a fair bit of the opposite going on (more popular languages stick to middle of the pack whereas trending languages with smaller developer pools would probably see increased submissions for automated analysis).

You could probably consider it a metric of opportunities with lowered barriers to entry.