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I mean I buy the argument, a lot of people are trying to make things in that space and a lot of people don't know what they're doing, so they find themselves us
by nickysielicki 7y ago
I mean I buy the argument, a lot of people are trying to make things in that space and a lot of people don't know what they're doing, so they find themselves using Keil or the Arduino IDE and so they're writing C99 because it gets them from zero to one. But who cares?
Trends among all programmers don't matter. It's much more important to ask yourself what trends can be observed among prominent top-tier development teams, and on a timeframe much more than a single year, because those people do know what they're doing and take a year or two to evaluate languages. I suspect the list would look a lot different. I can't imagine many teams are starting new projects today and saying, "You know what went wrong on our last project? We used C++ instead of C."
My best guess at the fastest growing programming language? Some variant of RTL. Hardware acceleration is huge right now. It's either that or Rust.
- ncmncm 7y agoMeaning Verilog and VHDL? Rust gets a lot of attention here on HN, and the percentage growth in number of (non-production) coders, relative to any previous period, is high, but the absolute numbers are still very, very tiny, whoever you count. If we count new production coders, any growing, established language is adding enormously more. C++, Javascript, maybe C#. The most surprising of these is C++, because it should already have penetrated everywhere it was viable, but paid conference attendance doesn't lie. And, yes, Verilog etc. are probably adding quite a lot more than a year ago, again relatively.