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It's interesting that you chose Elixir, Groovy, Scala, and Clojure as examplars - they seem like failures from an adoption standpoint. Go, your exception, is b
by staticassertion 8y ago
It's interesting that you chose Elixir, Groovy, Scala, and Clojure as examplars - they seem like failures from an adoption standpoint.
Go, your exception, is by far the most successful of the languages listed.
- tormeh 8y agoThat's not true. According to the Redmonk rankings, Scala is slightly more popular (based on GitHub and Stack Overflow) than Go. They are both solidly tier 2 languages. Groovy and Clojure are tier 3 languages. Elixir is about as popular as Fortran or Ocaml, which is not bad, but kinda niche.
- staticassertion 8y agoThat lacks the context of their age. Go is 10 years old, scala is 16 - 60% older, and it was built on top of the JVM, which is much older than that. I feel like that's worth mentioning, because it seems like Go has more momentum - maybe there's data that shows otherwise though, like trends in Redmonk over time. I had a quick look and didn't see an easy way to get that. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, it's just the impression I get.