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> The real test for popularity will be which languages the polyglot programmers will choose if unburdened by legacy code See the GitHub top languages: https://
by mseepgood 13y ago
> The real test for popularity will be which languages the polyglot programmers will choose if unburdened by legacy code
See the GitHub top languages:
https://github.com/languages https://github.com/languages
- yoklov 13y agoWhile you could do much worse for a measure of popularity, some languages are popular, but dont have a huge open source community. For example, Objective-C and C# are both probably higher in reality.
- mseepgood 13y agoBecause it's not popular. People use Objective C because iOS is popular, not the language.
- WayneDB 13y agoThere's no evidence that the GitHub list is comprised only of entries where the developer chose the language because they truly enjoyed or liked it. The only reason that Javascript is at the top is because of the Web's popularity in my opinion. Personally I've seen many, many more people say they enjoy C# and think it's a well-engineered language than I have seen for Javascript. Then of course we have people who choose languages based on their ideology.