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This 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 /
by collyw 8y ago
This 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.