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In recent years Stack Overflow has been criticized by various users on and off social media for being unwelcoming to new users. In fact, Stack Overflow also recognizes that this is a serious problem since they are losing old contributors and the criticism and widespread negative attitudes on the website. Because the website makes its data available online, we were able to form hypotheses and analyze the issue. We suspect that the hostile attitudes towards new users could be correlated with the maturity of scripting and programming languages or frameworks. Our work analyzes the developer community of Stack Overflow through the lens of users and languages heterogeneities. Students and young professionals would find the results useful when they decide which programming language to learn and how to get involved in the community wisely. Stack Overflow administors could adopt our algorithms to build the real-time dashboard to track the trends of the languages and provide data-driven insights for the developers