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It isn't. You can tell how much a language is used by the inverse of the number of blogposts about it. People who have jobs don't have the time to write about h

by konjin 6y ago

It isn't. You can tell how much a language is used by the inverse of the number of blogposts about it. People who have jobs don't have the time to write about how they would solve problems using that language, because they already are and have better things to do in their free time.

noisy_boy 6y ago
Number of blogposts about Python is a counter-argument.
- konjin 6y ago
  The number of people employed as python programmers is vastly smaller than the number of people who can write hello world in python, which is what the majority of blog-spam is about.
IshKebab 6y ago
It is. Since 2012 C has dropped from about 4% of Github code to 3%. Meanwhile Rust has climbed from 0 to about 1%. That on its own doesn't prove that people are moving from C to Rust but it's not a risky guess. I did see some data on language transitions a while ago but can't find it now unfortunately (why is browser history search still so shit?). https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/2 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/2
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- noisem4ker 6y ago
  >(why is browser history search still so shit?) Because Google wants people to search using the Google search engine, and see ads while they're at it. That would happen less often if Chrome were properly capable of searching the history. Opera did full text history search a decade ago, but that browser doesn't exist anymore. Also, history is expected not to be tied to the device in the cloud era. What more history data could you scalably sync other than URLs and page titles?
shaklee3 6y ago
There's a lot of truth in it, but for a slightly different reason. Almost everyone I work with knows or writes C regularly. They're usually very senior people, and not once have I ever heard them talk about a blog, let alone write one. so there is this large group of C practitioners out there that simply don't know or care about all these other things happening around them. To some degree, it doesn't matter since there are plenty of jobs doing this.

by konjin 6y ago

noisy_boy 6y ago

Number of blogposts about Python is a counter-argument.

konjin 6y ago
The number of people employed as python programmers is vastly smaller than the number of people who can write hello world in python, which is what the majority of blog-spam is about.

IshKebab 6y ago

It is. Since 2012 C has dropped from about 4% of Github code to 3%. Meanwhile Rust has climbed from 0 to about 1%. That on its own doesn't prove that people are moving from C to Rust but it's not a risky guess. I did see some data on language transitions a while ago but can't find it now unfortunately (why is browser history search still so shit?). https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/2 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2020/2

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noisem4ker 6y ago
>(why is browser history search still so shit?) Because Google wants people to search using the Google search engine, and see ads while they're at it. That would happen less often if Chrome were properly capable of searching the history. Opera did full text history search a decade ago, but that browser doesn't exist anymore. Also, history is expected not to be tied to the device in the cloud era. What more history data could you scalably sync other than URLs and page titles?

shaklee3 6y ago

There's a lot of truth in it, but for a slightly different reason. Almost everyone I work with knows or writes C regularly. They're usually very senior people, and not once have I ever heard them talk about a blog, let alone write one. so there is this large group of C practitioners out there that simply don't know or care about all these other things happening around them. To some degree, it doesn't matter since there are plenty of jobs doing this.