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2 interesting things to me are how D is #18 and Go is #36. Given how many postings about Go you see on HN, you'd think it would be be the other way around. Als

by tbirdz 13y ago

2 interesting things to me are how D is #18 and Go is #36. Given how many postings about Go you see on HN, you'd think it would be be the other way around. Also I thought it was interesting about the rise of F#. That is a language that looks really cool, but it's tied to the whole Windows/.NET environment. Of course there is still mono. Has any had any experience with F# in mono, and know if it is as performant as the windows stack?

danneu 13y ago
The absence of Clojure is what reminded me of the bubble I live in. Or should I say the Clojure Cave.
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- thirsteh 13y ago
  Clojure isn't absent on http://langpop.corger.nl/ http://langpop.corger.nl/
thirsteh 13y ago
Didn't they admit that for every language, the "popularity" is simply the number of Google search results for "<language name> programming", and that, as a special case for Go, they changed it to "golang programming"? A language could be at the top simply because it forces people to ask a lot of questions on StackOverflow. I'd trust GitHub's language activity much more than something like Tiobe -- http://langpop.corger.nl/ http://langpop.corger.nl/
- davidw 13y ago
  These things all have biases though. Github is not going to show you much COBOL at all, and yet that language remains fairly popular in its own environment. The best thing is to include as many as possible and let people play with the weights.
profquail 13y ago
I've done most of my development work in F# over the past few years. Most of that was on Windows, but I've done some cross-platform work using F# on Mono (on FreeBSD and Linux). Overall, Mono isn't as fast as the .NET CLR on Windows, but it has improved greatly over the past few years (since Xamarin took over development from Novell and hired a team of full-time developers); in fact, a couple of months ago I saw a post here on HN about an HFT firm who'd built their trading stack on Mono. As for F#, it's usually quite speedy, whether you run it on Windows or Mono (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.)

by tbirdz 13y ago

danneu 13y ago

The absence of Clojure is what reminded me of the bubble I live in. Or should I say the Clojure Cave.

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thirsteh 13y ago
Clojure isn't absent on http://langpop.corger.nl/ http://langpop.corger.nl/

thirsteh 13y ago

Didn't they admit that for every language, the "popularity" is simply the number of Google search results for "<language name> programming", and that, as a special case for Go, they changed it to "golang programming"? A language could be at the top simply because it forces people to ask a lot of questions on StackOverflow. I'd trust GitHub's language activity much more than something like Tiobe -- http://langpop.corger.nl/ http://langpop.corger.nl/

davidw 13y ago
These things all have biases though. Github is not going to show you much COBOL at all, and yet that language remains fairly popular in its own environment. The best thing is to include as many as possible and let people play with the weights.

profquail 13y ago

I've done most of my development work in F# over the past few years. Most of that was on Windows, but I've done some cross-platform work using F# on Mono (on FreeBSD and Linux). Overall, Mono isn't as fast as the .NET CLR on Windows, but it has improved greatly over the past few years (since Xamarin took over development from Novell and hired a team of full-time developers); in fact, a couple of months ago I saw a post here on HN about an HFT firm who'd built their trading stack on Mono. As for F#, it's usually quite speedy, whether you run it on Windows or Mono (OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.)