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I don't understand what this is saying, primarily because I don't believe there exists any Linux distro where C isn't a dominant language for packages to be wri

by msla 5y ago

I don't understand what this is saying, primarily because I don't believe there exists any Linux distro where C isn't a dominant language for packages to be written in. Also, what's dmd? The D programming language is all that comes to mind, but the abbreviation doesn't seem to work.

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ergeysay 5y ago
dmd is the original D compiler, Digital Mars D (Digital Mars being Walter Bright’s company).
- smitty1e 5y ago
  Ah, so. Thanks.
acomjean 5y ago
According to this: C is at 87%.(I’m using gcc as a proxy for c/c++) https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun
vymague 5y ago
Just some misleading chart. "Misleading" is probably too mild.
- Shadonototra 5y ago
  What is misleading about it? it's raw stats
  - Barrin92 5y ago
    for starters because it excludes most languages. Add Python to the url at the top and it dwarfs everything else More importantly though, trying to count programming languages by installations of individual packages doesn't make sense for languages that have multiple tool chains or are simply being installed by some other means. script/curl based installations are extremely popular for rust (rustup), haskell (stack), clojure (leiningen) etc...
    - Shadonototra 5y ago
      I didn't include gcc/clang/python and some others because they are preinstalled in most distributions, so the data wouldn't be interesting Best way to learn and correct mistakes is to be aware of them, thanks for your input, it's pretty obvious now indeed
  - scarygliders 5y ago
    It's raw stats of some selected languages.
Miiko 5y ago
I believe, this statistic does not say anything about what language Arch packages are written in, but rather what languages Arch users really use for their work.