The answer might be as simple as "people tend to work on games on the weekend", either as hobby projects or that professional game developers work weekends more often, skewing the weekend results away from serious enterprise apps. This would explain both the rise in low level languages but also things like OpenGL, Unity3D and Actionscript 3. It doesn't explain Haskell, of course, but I think the Haskell explanation in the article is accurate.
What programming languages are used most on weekends?
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#22I do a lot of HTML/CSS(Sass) using Middleman. Sometimes, I do Ruby.
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#23Also interesting to see the weekend dips in google trends, e.g. Java: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=jav...
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#24One way I use Stackoverflow’s dev stats is to make educated guesses about the easiness of finding developers in 2-3 years time to maintain now-greenfield projects. Does Ruby seem to go down while Python is in steady growth? Let's move away from Rails. Swift is picking up steam? It's safe to switch from Objective-C. This dataset seems to be just fantastic for that.
In my opinion, that's what's wrong with the world. Chasing tech, pick something solid and stick with it. I have seen developers barely get decent in one language only to drop it and learn a new language. Picking up the basics of a language is easy, but it's knowing the nuisance that separates the professional from the amateur.
"Picking up the basics of a language is easy, but it's knowing the nuisance that separates the professional from the amateur."
From learning perspective correct. I don't think developers chase new languages, I think it's more, play 'catch up to latest language' to be more employable. You would hope companies, CTOs, lead techs choose languages to solve the unique business problems. Language choice looks more, to me, like taste. Like choosing something ^nice^ from a menu at a restaurant depending on what is palatable.
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#26No big surprise that nobody works on sharepoint or XSLT as a weekend hobby.
Haha, since Subversion was born in the height of XML frenzy, they figured it was a good idea for the built-in web interface to just output XML and a default XSLT. That way if anyone wanted to customize it, they could do so to their heart's content by just specifying a different XSLT.
I loved Subversion at the time, and so created the TortoiseSVN Menu plugin [1] for Firefox, and an accompanying XSLT to add lots of rich info and styling into the main UI.
It's something that should have been pretty simple but I remember spending lots of my free time back then to get it just right. Funny thing is, since I worked on it at home but mostly used it at work, I really could have used a good distributed VCS at the time :D
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tortoisesvn-m...
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#27Assembly is too vague of a tag
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#28"actionscript 3" what? o_O I thought this is over
I was going to comment on this as well. As someone who worked in AS3 heavily but left it years ago, i wonder the cause of this. My guess is not that adoption is increasing, but instead that the expertise has long since evacuated the field, leaving people who work in AS3 hard-pressed to find answers within their departments.
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#29Also interesting to see the weekend dips in google trends, e.g. Java: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=jav...
Not sure if that's relevant.
Same dips can be seen for JS:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&q=%2F...
And on the Stack Overflow it seems that JS has perfect balance of workdays vs weekends.
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#30No big surprise that nobody works on sharepoint or XSLT as a weekend hobby.
Come on, you don't like to tinker with SharePoint Server configuration templates in your free time?
I get the feeling that some pieces of software constitute 100% billable / work time. Sharepoint would probably be pretty high on that list. I do confess to studying BizTalk Orchestrations on my own time, but that was for research into the area not the product specifically.