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F# isn't listed on any of your charts. I think it's probably popular enough to show up in all of your data sources at this point. Also, maybe add GitHub and St

F# isn't listed on any of your charts. I think it's probably popular enough to show up in all of your data sources at this point. Also, maybe add GitHub and StackOverflow as data sources?

davidw 15y ago
F# should probably go there, yeah. GitHub and StackOverflow started out really biased in terms of their communities - GitHub with Ruby, and StackOverflow with Microsoft languages. Do you think they've sufficiently lost that bias?
- jshen 15y ago
  If nearly all ruby programmers put their code on github, and you don't count it but you do count google code, then isn't that a bias i the sample? Wouldn't it make more sense to include all the major code hosting sites, including github?
  - davidw 15y ago
    Google's Code Search just searches for code on the internet.
    - jshen 15y ago
      ah, sorry. I thought you were looking at google code repos.
- davidw 15y ago
  This is, by the way, an honest question. I think at a certain point they'll be mainstream enough to say yes, but it's tough to say when.
- profquail 15y ago
  I think StackOverflow has; GitHub still seems a bit biased towards scripting languages like Ruby or Javascript though. In any case, since you show the graphs from the various sources, I don't think it matters if one source is more biased than another. If, for example, you used CodePlex as a data source, you'll see a huge bias towards C# -- but visitors to your site could simply draw their own conclusions from the charts.
  - gaius 15y ago
    Where can I see the data for GitHub? I'm not sure I even trust that... I do lots of bindings from OCaml to C, and whereas I consider them to be OCaml projects, GitHub sees they're more C by LOC and counts them as C.
- profquail 15y ago
  On another note, you know what else could be a great source(s) for data? Google Scholar, CiteSeerX and arXiv. It'd be really interesting to compare the language usage between "industry" and academia.

F# isn't listed on any of your charts. I think it's probably popular enough to show up in all of your data sources at this point. Also, maybe add GitHub and StackOverflow as data sources?

davidw 15y ago

F# should probably go there, yeah. GitHub and StackOverflow started out really biased in terms of their communities - GitHub with Ruby, and StackOverflow with Microsoft languages. Do you think they've sufficiently lost that bias?

jshen 15y ago
If nearly all ruby programmers put their code on github, and you don't count it but you do count google code, then isn't that a bias i the sample? Wouldn't it make more sense to include all the major code hosting sites, including github?
- davidw 15y ago
  Google's Code Search just searches for code on the internet.
  - jshen 15y ago
    ah, sorry. I thought you were looking at google code repos.
davidw 15y ago
This is, by the way, an honest question. I think at a certain point they'll be mainstream enough to say yes, but it's tough to say when.
profquail 15y ago
I think StackOverflow has; GitHub still seems a bit biased towards scripting languages like Ruby or Javascript though. In any case, since you show the graphs from the various sources, I don't think it matters if one source is more biased than another. If, for example, you used CodePlex as a data source, you'll see a huge bias towards C# -- but visitors to your site could simply draw their own conclusions from the charts.
- gaius 15y ago
  Where can I see the data for GitHub? I'm not sure I even trust that... I do lots of bindings from OCaml to C, and whereas I consider them to be OCaml projects, GitHub sees they're more C by LOC and counts them as C.
profquail 15y ago
On another note, you know what else could be a great source(s) for data? Google Scholar, CiteSeerX and arXiv. It'd be really interesting to compare the language usage between "industry" and academia.