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Just to keep in mind: StackOverflow deliberately removed Clojure from their surveys. People who embrace it are loving it to bits. Also Haskell and Clojure are n
by beders 5y ago
Just to keep in mind: StackOverflow deliberately removed Clojure from their surveys. People who embrace it are loving it to bits. Also Haskell and Clojure are not even in the Top 50 programming languages according to TIOBE.
"Languages not in the top 20 in 2016 are more likely to be used in new projects. "
Based on what statistic?
This is a wishful thinking article with very little basis in reality.
- bccdee 5y agoYeah this article is kind of a mess. It wants to have a data-driven perspective, but what the data shows is "people tend to like newer languages more." Now, this could be because there are fewer legacy projects in newer languages. Or it could be because newer languages learned lessons from older languages. Python is still considered "well-loved" despite being pretty old, while its contemporaries C++ and Java are fairly disliked — this is (probably) because Python actually innovated over those other languages in a lot of ways. And languages which learned from Python (JS, TS, Julia, Dart) are all well-loved, with the possible exception of Ruby, which famously differs from Python with its TMTOWTDI philosophy. I'm not necessarily saying that there is obviously a forward march of programming language progress, but it's worth noting that the data the author's looking at can just as easily acommodate that thesis too.
- Scarbutt 5y agoClojure is statistically insignificant, that is why it was removed, what's the point of saying "Clojure is the most loved language" when only two out two voted for that.
- oblio 5y ago> StackOverflow deliberately removed Clojure from their surveys How? When? Why?