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According to Stackoverflow trends, Julia’s popularity is decreasing and very small https://trends.stackoverflow.co/?tags=julia https://trends.stackoverflow.co/
by joshlk 2y ago
According to Stackoverflow trends, Julia’s popularity is decreasing and very small
https://trends.stackoverflow.co/?tags=julia https://trends.stackoverflow.co/?tags=julia
- mjgant 2y agoOr thats the LLM/ChatGPT effect. Can see similar downtrends with other languages
- NeutralForest 2y agoEven languages like Python and Javascript who are huge show a decline after 2022 which suggests ChatGPT is probably responsible. It would be better to have some other measure imo.
- joshlk 2y agoIt measures the proportion of questions for that language out of all languages. So, if there is a general decline in Stackoverflow questions, it’s already accounted for in the metric
- NeutralForest 2y agoThere are too many confounding factors still.
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- amval 2y agoThat's mostly because Julia questions get answered on its Discourse or Slack. The sharp decline is due to an automatic cross-post bot that stopped working. No one bothered fixing it, in great part due to Discourse being the main place of discussion, as far as I know.
- eigenspace 2y agoJulia users don't go to Stack Overflow because we have better options.
- veqq 2y agoStackoverflow's popularity's decreased a lot, many communities have entirely left.