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Scripting languages slip in popularity
- karmakaze 9y ago7. Visual Basic .Net, at 2.909 percent ... 9. Delphi/Object Pascal, at 1.744 percent 10. assembly language, at 1.722 percent I'm astonished that these three are still in the top ten. Any ideas who or what types of applications actively use these?
- flukus 9y agoAssembly is kind of the base line for anything performance sensitive, I doubt most people using it are working with assembly full time, kind of like how all web/full stack devs use javascript. VB.net is basically all LOB style applications, it will be in small business, it will be in the enterprise space, etc. I doubt there are many starting new work in VB instead of c# but that still leaves tonnes of legacy stuff. As with assembly, a lot of full time c# devs would be maintaining VB from time to time. What I always find fascinating is the disconnect between what's popular on places like HN and the real world.