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The Languages of Hacker News
- JoelPM 16y agoInteresting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance). Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-in.
- sogrady 16y agoAsk and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.
- JoelPM 16y agoThanks! I thought perhaps the numbers were so low for those languages that they didn't merit inclusion, but that seems not to be the case (certainly not for Lisp).
- sogrady 16y agoNo indeed. Language selection was a random sample, though I'm cutting off those with < 5 K mentions (e.g. C# @ 4553). Happy to run more languages if people have questions about them.
- ZeroMinx 16y agoI wonder what kind of numbers Perl would get?
- nostrademons 16y agoI'd also like to see Haskell, which tends to be popular on Internet forums.
- neckbeard 16y agoOr C and C++, which tend to be popular with people that get real work done.
- nostrademons 16y agoDude, most people I know who use C or C++ for their daily work tend to curse them. I wouldn't exactly call them popular. Of course, those same people then bite their tongue and go back to work, because they have actual work to do. "There are two kinds of programming languages: those that nobody likes, and those that nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrop
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- sogrady 16y agoThe .jar doesn't like the + operators, so I can't measure C++ right now, but C is at 11009. Will be updating the graph shortly.
- scalyweb 16y agoHow about our good friend, C ?
- sogrady 16y ago11009
- silentOpen 16y agoOCaml?
- sogrady 16y ago1658.
- pmr_ 16y agoI cannot find a link to the mentioned dataset and my google-fu is useless on this. Where can I get it? Edit: I realized that the dataset was taken from http://api.ihackernews.com/ http://api.ihackernews.com/ but has been taken down since.
- ronnier 16y agoEmail me and I'll get it to you.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoNo F#?
- luisns 16y agonice, it would be interesting another one but focused on frameworks
- sogrady 16y agoI'll do frameworks next, then. Any frameworks that people are particularly interested in seeing?
- sogrady 16y agoOk, if you wanted data for C, C#, Erlang, Haskell, Lisp, or Perl, I've updated the post. Saw the Ocaml request too late to get it in, but your number is 1658.