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Haskell at least is fun. My favorite Julia also made the list this year... nonzero users means there is hope for fun languages yet. With the new Intel+NVIDIA RTX SoC deal, we can expect Python and C++ to dominate that list in the next few years. =3
Dozens of us use Julia. Dozens!!
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It is a good choice if you want to use a non-Microsoft stack language (yes C# can be developed on Linux but the quality of the development experience on Linux isn't same as Windows) and want a vast ecosystem. Golang is too verbose due to lack of exceptions and the size of its ecosystem of third-party packages isn't anywhere as close to Java's. Swift is very nice but issues with ecosystem exist there too. Too steep a…
I have developed .NET solutions on Linux over 8 years now (and about 10 years on Windows before) and would say the quality of development in Linux is even better than in Windows today. Sure you can't use Visual Studio in Linux, but you can use VS Code or Rider, which I would prefere anyway.
Also the VSCode extension for .NET has the same license as VS.
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Your definition is overly broad and makes everything a programming language, at which point the term isn't useful anymore.
But Turing completeness is also too broad. Otherwise Power point animations and Conways game of life are programming languages.
F# not listed at all? If that’s accurate (color me doubtful), people are missing out on a great language that runs on a popular platform. Personally, after learning to love F#, I’m never going back to C#.
Nowdays CLR seems to have changed meaning to C# Language Runtime.
It's hard to find good data sources for this, especially that StackOverflow is in decline[1]. IEEE's methodology[2] is sensible given what's possible, but the data sources are all flawed in some ways (that don't necessarily cancel each other out). The number of search results reported by Google is the most volatile indirect proxy signal. Search results include everything mentioning the query, without promising it bei…
By far the most useful and helpful is job ads: it literally defines the demand side of the programming language market. Yes, that does not show us how much code is running out there, and some companies might have huge armies with very low churn and so the COBOL stacks in banks don’t show up, but I can’t think of a more useful and directly measurable way of understanding a languages real utility.
43% of all banking systems.
95% of all US ATM transactions.
80% of all in-person credit card transactions.
96% of travel bookings.
This may very well dramatically change in the next few years with such an emphasis on enterprise AI tools to rewrite large COBOL repositories. [2]
[1] https://www.pcmag.com/articles/ibms-plan-to-update-cobol-wit...
[2] e.g. Blitzy https://paper.blitzy.com/blitzy_system_2_ai_platform_topping...
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Plus TIOBE had Perl enter the top 10 suddenly this year but I do not see any new developers. And Ada too! Where are all those Ada programmers?
https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/packages?compare=ada,gcc,go,ja... Ada seems pretty popular on Arch This data is kinda worthless for popularity contests, since they may get picked up by aur packages, but this gives a solid insight into wich languages are foundational I wish the same was available for other distros You can do the same with docker images curl -s https://hub.docker.com/v2/repositories/library/python/ | jq…
Kinda surprising that I see nothing from Zig on all these lists.
Its safety story is basically what Modula-2 (1978) and Object Pascal (1986) already had, but now it gets done with curly brackets instead of a begin/end language.
UAF is an issue, and the tooling to tackle this issue is exactly the same that C and C++ have available for the last 30 years, give it or take it.
It will be another language to talk about, however I doubt it will ever make it into mainstream, like having platfrom vendors and console Devkits care that Zig exists.
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What is wrong with Java's tooling and ecosystem? Asking because it used to be the default a decade or so ago, with a vibrant ecosystem, so I find your remark surprising.
Maven/Gradle don’t come close to the simplicity of npm, for example
As a backend dev (mostly working in fintech) I feel weirdly unable to find a target language to move to. After working with Node and Ruby for a while I really miss a static type system. - Typescript was limited by its option to allow non strictness. Nothing catches my eye, as it’s either Java/.Net and its enterprisey companies or Go, which might not be old but feels like it is, by design. Rust sounds fun, but its use…
If you want to stay in Fintech, I really don't see anything beyond Java, C#, C++, TypeScript (for the Web stuff). Some Fintech companies might go a bit outside the norm and allow for Haskell, F#, Scala, which they tend to use as DSLs for some workflows. Then if you into array languages, banking and fintech is one fo the few domains where that have managed to stay around, but those positions seem hard to get. Dyalog (…