The Languages of Hacker News
redmonk.comI 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/ but has been taken down since.
Email me and I'll get it to you.
Interesting 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.
Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.
I'd also like to see Haskell, which tends to be popular on Internet forums.
Or C and C++, which tend to be popular with people that get real work done.
Dude, 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
How about our good friend, C ?
11009
Thanks! 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).
No 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.
I wonder what kind of numbers Perl would get?
I'll update the post when I get a chance, but in the meantime Perl was at 20,205 mentions.
cool thanks
OCaml?
1658.
Ok, 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.
No F#?
F# is 1073.
or even C#
C# is 4553.
nice, it would be interesting another one but focused on frameworks
I'll do frameworks next, then. Any frameworks that people are particularly interested in seeing?