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Trends on Hacker News: Programming Languages and Tools
- collyw 8y agoThis is interesting. I imagine given the readership and focus of HN its more indicate of what languages will be popular in the future than the Stack Overflow / Github listings.
- thrower123 8y agoI wouldn't be that sure whether it is any more likely to hit than any other prognosticator. For every Go or Rust that gets a lot of play here, there's a D, or Nim, or Crystal, or Pony, or a half-dozen promising upstarts that never amount to anything. There's also perennial interest in esoteric academic languages, and productive but niche languages that will never go mainstream, like Haskell and Lisps.
- collyw 8y agoThat's true, Haskell and Lisp get a lot more love here than they do in the real world.
- tjwds 8y agoI'm a little suspicious; are all name permutations being checked here? For example, js for javascript and digitalocean for "digital ocean."
- camjohnson26 8y agoYeah I would think digital ocean should be higher. Heroku isn't even mentioned.
- lettergram 8y agoYou're welcome to compare yourself: https://hnprofile.com/compare https://hnprofile.com/compare Type "digitalocean | digital ocean" if you want both options to be searched
- rinchik 8y agoNodejs is listed as a framework? O_o Among React and Django? It reads like a badly written resume.
- dropmann 8y agoI think "popular" is the wrong adjective to describe what these numbers really indicate. For example I believe electron is being discussed more, because its more controversial than classic UI frameworks. That does not mean it is more popular.
- Null-Set 8y agoThe hnprofile tool also does sentiment analysis if you want to compare that. Seems like over the last year electron discussions were indeed much less favorable than qt discussions.
- camjohnson26 8y agoI wonder if golang is lower in the results because people here just call it Go.
- serg_chernata 8y agoI was very surprised to see it barely present in the results.
- Kagerjay 8y agoHow is this data being populated? Ruby on rails gets its own post about whether its dead or not, about once every few months NodeJS is not a framework its a language, but I guess you mean NodeJS + Express.
- fierro 8y agoNode is not a language per se. Its an environment built around JavaScript and npm with some framework-like features, like eventing.
- RickJWagner 8y ago1. Wow, Javascript has taken over the world 2. SQL as #2? Shocking. 3. Open Source is dominating.