Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Post by loppers92 » Mon, Jan 02, 2017, 10:37 PM UTC

Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub
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Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Post by pier25 » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 12:06 AM UTC

Haxe was so promising but it remains largely ignored by the community.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dbj...

Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Post by merpnderp » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 12:17 AM UTC

pier25 wrote: post #2

Haxe was so promising but it remains largely ignored by the community. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dbj...

I'd love to know why haxe never caught on mainstream and what it's primary drawbacks are.

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Post by eddieone » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 12:42 AM UTC

Typical node being ninja stealth. I guess not technically a language on it's own. https://github.com/nodejs/node

Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Post by jack9 » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 12:44 AM UTC

Some of these languages (ponyc) are still...prototypes. Yeah you can get them working for a limited set of "working" and with very specific setup->configurations. If every language included a Docker or VM with it already set up for some level of demo, I think a rate for adoption/learning them would uptick.

Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Post by eternalban » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 1:07 AM UTC

Golo [1][2] caught my eye given its French provenance -- they usually have a fresh/interesting perspective in engineering.

[1]: http://golo-lang.org/

[2]: https://www.eclipse.org/community/eclipse_newsletter/2016/oc...

Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Post by bionsuba » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 1:07 AM UTC

merpnderp wrote: post #3

pier25 wrote: post #2

Haxe was so promising but it remains largely ignored by the community. https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0dbj...

I'd love to know why haxe never caught on mainstream and what it's primary drawbacks are.

When I first learned about and took a look at haxe, there was no good documentation.

Granted, this was six years ago, so it's probably better now.

Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Post by Xcelerate » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 1:25 AM UTC

Interesting to note that Julia comes in at #9 on the list, ahead of Scala, Clojure, and Erlang. I still think it's the most underrated programming language of the decade and hope that its usage continues to grow. I know it's touted as a language for numerical computing and scientific research, but I believe it would make a great general purpose language, perhaps even better than Python.

Other than a few minor nitpicks, Julia is genuinely a joy to program in, and the depth of its feature goes very far (multiple dispatch, homoiconicity, genuine macros, sophisticated type system, runtime compilation via LLVM, clean interfacing with C code). I can't say the same for other languages. You can tell the language was designed and not cobbled together in an ad hoc fashion.

Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Post by bdcravens » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 1:37 AM UTC

Missing https://github.com/lucee/lucee (open source version of ColdFusion)

Re: Programming languages that are actively developed on GitHub

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Post by xwowsersx » Tue, Jan 03, 2017, 1:38 AM UTC

Which of these projects has a truly open development process that takes place in public and on Github?

Are most (or some) of these developed internally by whichever enterprise is behind the language where developers at those companies "bake" commits and then push them up after going through an internal code review process?