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Java still beats C# among hackers: http://github.com/languages http://github.com/languages. C# is more fun to work in with each release, as Microsoft courts pr
by jcromartie 16y ago
Java still beats C# among hackers: http://github.com/languages http://github.com/languages.
C# is more fun to work in with each release, as Microsoft courts programmers who can tell a closure from a hole in the ground. Unfortunately, it has a rather anemic community compared to many other languages.
- ComputerGuru 16y agoYou're looking at github, which is primarily for open source hackers...... most whose work isn't on Windows. While GitHub is representative of hackers' language preference, it's not representative of language popularity. You need to keep in mind that C# is really (mostly) a Windows-only language, and open source tends to be much more proliferative on non-Windows platforms where Java is a much more feasible option. But, yeah, C# is becoming more and more exciting with its new anonymous methods, lambda expressions, and more :)
- yummyfajitas 16y agoGithub is probably representative of C# and Java among hackers. But it isn't representative of hackers language preference for all languages. Github will almost certainly underrepresent both python and haskell, and bitbucket will overrepresent python.
- jrockway 16y agoMy impression is that the Haskell community is tired of the lack of github-like darcs hosting, and are switching to Git for github. After all, you can losslessly convert between Darcs and Git, so even though the code is on github, they may be typing "darcs ..." to work on it.
- dons 16y agoA few use http://patch-tag.com http://patch-tag.com -- github-like darcs hosting. Others use http://code.haskell.org http://code.haskell.org , unix hosting we put up before github existed. github is winning though.