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I wish it showed more than the top 10. I'd like to see the rank among languages outside of the top 10. Like even Go and Rust.
by Cshelton 11y ago
I wish it showed more than the top 10. I'd like to see the rank among languages outside of the top 10. Like even Go and Rust.
- vegabook 11y agoAbsolutely. This is useful but it is highly unlikely that any of the languages in this chart will disappear anytime soon. As I plan my learning-time investment budget for the next few years, it's only marginally interesting to me that blockbuster language Number 2 goes to Number 4 or whatever. I already know that any of these languages would be a good choice as long as they fit the applicable domain. What matters much more to me is that language number 40 suddently find itself at 20, for example. To really plan for the future we need to peek at the nascent trends in small-language land. I'm much more interested in Ocaml, Julia, Nim, Rust, or Lua, even Cuda, OpenCL, Chapel or Cilk, than I am in Python, Java/script, or (sigh) CSS.
- ghaff 11y agoYou can also look at this programming language rankings post by Stephen O'Grady with RedMonk for a longer tail list. (Though I suspect potential biases in the methodology of such rankings become more pronounced the further out on the tail you get.) http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/07/01/language-rankings-6-15/ http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2015/07/01/language-rankings-6-15... (Donnie used to be with RedMonk as well.)
- Lofkin 11y agoExactly!