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> JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby are all in the top 5 spots on GitHub. All of which are established languages created in the 90's. It takes time for languag
by jinst8gmi 11y ago
> JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Ruby are all in the top 5 spots on GitHub.
All of which are established languages created in the 90's. It takes time for languages which are rapidly gaining mindshare to gain marketshare on GitHub.
- danmaz74 11y ago> It takes time for languages which are rapidly gaining mindshare Honestly curious: which new languages are those?
- jinst8gmi 11y agoGo, Swift and Rust come to mind. Some alternative JVM languages aren't doing too badly either.
- Veedrac 11y agoSwift is very much an Apple language, replacing Objective-C. You won't see it replacing JavaScript, PHP, Python, or Ruby. Same for Rust, which mostly replaces C++ and a bit of C. Maybe some Java, too, for people using Java for the safety despite really wanting something lower level. IMHO Go isn't much competition to most popular dynamic languages, but some people disagree.
- ldrndll 11y agoIt's anecdotal, but in the absence of anything more concrete... I think every blog post I've read about Go (bar one) that has mentioned the author's previous language mentioned a dynamically typed language. That may just indicate that switching to Go from a dynamically typed language makes you more zealous and likely to blog about it something. Or it could be that lots of Go users were previously writing Python/Ruby/etc.
- Shorel 11y agoI would say go and rust.