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I'm curious, did you consider a 3rd factor – something like enthusiasm or interest – where a language may be neither in wide use nor necessarily gaining much ad
by pohl 13y ago
I'm curious, did you consider a 3rd factor – something like enthusiasm or interest – where a language may be neither in wide use nor necessarily gaining much adoption but nevertheless garners a lot of attention? I'm thinking maybe Rust or Haskell?
Edit: I don't mean to slight those two languages, by the way. Both, I'm sure, are gaining actual adoption at non-zero rates. I just chose them to illustrate that, perhaps, the level of interest around them may be a bit out of proportion with either their adoption or their acceleration.
- davidw 13y agoI included 'talked about' in the stats for that reason. I guess you could say that, yes, there are some languages that a lot of people look at and admire but don't really use that much. Lisp comes to mind as being #1 on that list.
- hnriot 13y agoenthusiasm would be very useful, for example, python won't ever be SO #1 because it's an easy language to develop in. Java will consistently "beat" it in that regard due to its dumb things like turning List<String> into String[] having the dumbest syntax ever. The SO rank is two factors combined in a way that is very difficult to separate, usage and difficulty.