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Show HN: Programming Languages Timeline

21 points by eiriklv 12y ago

eiriklv 12y ago
Heavily inspired by https://github.com/cheeaun/life https://github.com/cheeaun/life :-)
- film42 12y ago
  Thanks for making this! I had to pull myself away after 10min of reading this because it's quite addicting. One thing though: the style makes it really hard for me to read the text, I ended up just changing the text color for myself in Chrome. Still, bookmarked and will return :)
  - eiriklv 12y ago
    This is the most popular criticism it seems, so I'm fixing it right now :-) Thanks for feedback!
    - film42 12y ago
      Sooooo much better! Thank you!
      - eiriklv 12y ago
        Great! Did some additional fixes now as well (smaller space between each year, bigger font size, etc). You might need to bust the varnish cache (?12345) to see it straight away. I'm trying to find a better color scheme as well - but I'm a really bad designer :-P
shadeless 12y ago
That's interesting, seems that the only year without a new (known/significant) programming language from 1946 to now is 2013. I wonder why.
- tracker1 12y ago
  It seems like the past year or two have been rediscovery of languages from the not too distant past, and investment into those that are here... Go, rust, closure, lua, node(js) and a few others have seen some massive interest the past two years, so it isn't that surprising.
therealdrag0 12y ago
Would be nice if it the scroll directions were associated so you don't have to manually scroll both ways to keep the text in view.
- eiriklv 12y ago
  I agree on this, and will look into it :-)
nightmiles 12y ago
This is a nice timeline, but unfortunately the text is quite difficult to read due to poor color contrast. Any chance this can be improved?
- eiriklv 12y ago
  Will try to fix this. Thanks for the feedback! :-)
Igglyboo 12y ago
Nice timeline, I would rethink the colors however. Maybe change the text to white?
- eiriklv 12y ago
  Working on it. Thanks for feedback :-)
halayli 12y ago
leave the years timeline fixed at the top.
- eiriklv 12y ago
  I was trying to do that actually, but encountered the inherent issue of css not being able to only fix an element for only one axis. But i guess there is a solution for it, and i completely agree that it would be better :-)
stared 12y ago
Interesting data, but not the most readable. Could you try: - increasing contrast of text (vs background), - making it horizontal (time is already there, no need to make the whole plot diagonal) - making different author of language different color or font size than language (and perhaps, bottom to language name). I believe it would add to readability.
- eiriklv 12y ago
  I'll give it a shot! Thanks for the feedback :-)
troels 12y ago
1972 was a crazy year.
- kgosser 12y ago
  Only other year that I think could rival it is 1995. Holy cow.
  - eiriklv 12y ago
    I would say 1995 is my favourite :-)
    - droidist2 12y ago
      Definitely! Ruby, JavaScript, and Java are 3 of my main languages.
juanpabloaj 12y ago
In the timeline, I don't see viml (Vim script).
eiriklv 12y ago
Btw - the data is from wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languag... if this is incomplete, then feel free to add the missing ones to the list give me a pull-request for this file - https://github.com/eiriklv/eiriklv.github.io/blob/master/timeline/programming-languages/js/data.js https://github.com/eiriklv/eiriklv.github.io/blob/master/tim...
batuhanicoz 12y ago
This is one of those sites I wouldn't mind the site hijacking my scroll. It would also be nice if you could show many any languages were created for a year in the year bar above, maybe on hover or as a badge.

21 points by eiriklv 12y ago

eiriklv 12y ago

Heavily inspired by https://github.com/cheeaun/life https://github.com/cheeaun/life :-)

film42 12y ago
Thanks for making this! I had to pull myself away after 10min of reading this because it's quite addicting. One thing though: the style makes it really hard for me to read the text, I ended up just changing the text color for myself in Chrome. Still, bookmarked and will return :)
- eiriklv 12y ago
  This is the most popular criticism it seems, so I'm fixing it right now :-) Thanks for feedback!
  - film42 12y ago
    Sooooo much better! Thank you!
    - eiriklv 12y ago
      Great! Did some additional fixes now as well (smaller space between each year, bigger font size, etc). You might need to bust the varnish cache (?12345) to see it straight away. I'm trying to find a better color scheme as well - but I'm a really bad designer :-P

shadeless 12y ago

That's interesting, seems that the only year without a new (known/significant) programming language from 1946 to now is 2013. I wonder why.

tracker1 12y ago
It seems like the past year or two have been rediscovery of languages from the not too distant past, and investment into those that are here... Go, rust, closure, lua, node(js) and a few others have seen some massive interest the past two years, so it isn't that surprising.

therealdrag0 12y ago

Would be nice if it the scroll directions were associated so you don't have to manually scroll both ways to keep the text in view.

eiriklv 12y ago
I agree on this, and will look into it :-)

nightmiles 12y ago

This is a nice timeline, but unfortunately the text is quite difficult to read due to poor color contrast. Any chance this can be improved?

eiriklv 12y ago
Will try to fix this. Thanks for the feedback! :-)

Igglyboo 12y ago

Nice timeline, I would rethink the colors however. Maybe change the text to white?

eiriklv 12y ago
Working on it. Thanks for feedback :-)

halayli 12y ago

leave the years timeline fixed at the top.

eiriklv 12y ago
I was trying to do that actually, but encountered the inherent issue of css not being able to only fix an element for only one axis. But i guess there is a solution for it, and i completely agree that it would be better :-)

stared 12y ago

Interesting data, but not the most readable. Could you try: - increasing contrast of text (vs background), - making it horizontal (time is already there, no need to make the whole plot diagonal) - making different author of language different color or font size than language (and perhaps, bottom to language name). I believe it would add to readability.

eiriklv 12y ago
I'll give it a shot! Thanks for the feedback :-)

troels 12y ago

1972 was a crazy year.

kgosser 12y ago
Only other year that I think could rival it is 1995. Holy cow.
- eiriklv 12y ago
  I would say 1995 is my favourite :-)
  - droidist2 12y ago
    Definitely! Ruby, JavaScript, and Java are 3 of my main languages.

juanpabloaj 12y ago

In the timeline, I don't see viml (Vim script).

eiriklv 12y ago

Btw - the data is from wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languages- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_programming_languag... if this is incomplete, then feel free to add the missing ones to the list give me a pull-request for this file - https://github.com/eiriklv/eiriklv.github.io/blob/master/timeline/programming-languages/js/data.js https://github.com/eiriklv/eiriklv.github.io/blob/master/tim...

batuhanicoz 12y ago

This is one of those sites I wouldn't mind the site hijacking my scroll. It would also be nice if you could show many any languages were created for a year in the year bar above, maybe on hover or as a badge.