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Re: Github and Stackoverflow programming language popularity

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Post by ville »

halvsjur wrote: post #34
teacurran wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Java doesn't get a lot of press or cool points, but the enterprise world is massive and anyone in it knows there's still a lot of spending going on for java projects. It's also worth noting that several other languages on the list only run on the Java Virtual Machine. (Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Gosu, Ceylon). Jobs for these languages are commonly filled by people who identify as Java developers.

There is a Scala.NET ( http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~magarcia/ScalaNET/ ) project by the way.

And Clojure also runs on CLR (ClojureCLR) and can be compiled to JavaScript (ClojureScript).

Re: Github and Stackoverflow programming language popularity

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Post by dagw »

wavesounds wrote: post #15
Toshio wrote: post #3

My interpretation of this is that Common Lisp is a computer scientist's language (lots of code written in it, very few questions, presumably these are very advanced level questions). On the other hand, C# and Visual Basic are weekend coders' languages (reasonable amounts of code, massive amounts of very basic level questions).

Really? I always thought MS languages were what you coded if you worked on Enterprise stuff during the week, then on the weekends you bust out the open source languages.

I code python at my day job, and my latest weekend project is in C#. So far I'm really liking C#.

Re: Github and Stackoverflow programming language popularity

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Post by NameNickHN »

kevinqi wrote: post #30
smoyer wrote: post #13

"a few surprises on this list – the continued traction of Java" I'm not surprised by this at all ... while looking for work recently, I was a bit shocked at how much of the doom and gloom being spoken about Java was wrong. It's not cool to say you're a Java developer, but most of the corporate world runs on it, even if no one admits to be the person developing those applications. There were even a few projects where…

I wonder if Android development is also a big factor in Java's popularity.

I would think so. Android has motivated a lot of people (myself included) to start programming in Java.

Re: Github and Stackoverflow programming language popularity

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Post by klibertp »

igouy wrote: post #26
somid3 wrote: post #18

this is an incredible graph, I am sending to all my coder friends

"incredible: impossible or very difficult to believe" http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/american-english/... See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4516651

I would suspect that grandparent knew exactly the meaning of "incredible", as it is just very difficult to believe that this graph represents anything more than what people use SO and github ;)

Re: Github and Stackoverflow programming language popularity

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Post by igouy »

klibertp wrote: post #45
igouy wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"incredible: impossible or very difficult to believe" http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/american-english/... See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4516651

I would suspect that grandparent knew exactly the meaning of "incredible", as it is just very difficult to believe that this graph represents anything more than what people use SO and github ;)

I suspect that somid3 was simply being emphatic.

Actually, the graph is a gross distortion rather than difficult to believe -- see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4516651

Re: Github and Stackoverflow programming language popularity

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Post by klibertp »

igouy wrote: post #46
klibertp wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would suspect that grandparent knew exactly the meaning of "incredible", as it is just very difficult to believe that this graph represents anything more than what people use SO and github ;)

I suspect that somid3 was simply being emphatic. Actually, the graph is a gross distortion rather than difficult to believe -- see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4516651

Yes, I read that and was referring to this exactly, but somewhat jokingly. I just thought that "incredible" could be a more polite way to say "useless"...

Re: Github and Stackoverflow programming language popularity

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Post by igouy »

klibertp wrote: post #47
igouy wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect that somid3 was simply being emphatic. Actually, the graph is a gross distortion rather than difficult to believe -- see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4516651

Yes, I read that and was referring to this exactly, but somewhat jokingly. I just thought that "incredible" could be a more polite way to say "useless"...

>> "incredible" could be ... enthusiastic - like "terrific" "fantastic".

What somid3 meant is not at all clear.

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