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I think Perl has already reached the state where it's mostly used in legacy code, at least for web development.
NYC financial firms are starting new projects all of the time where Perl is the main tool for feeding information here from over there.
First off, popularity of a language shouldn't be as important as you seem to make it in starting a project. Finding the right tool for the job should be much much more important, new kid in town be damned. Second off, number of package releases doesn't tell much about maturity of packages, developer involvement, or anything. Ruby's a mature language. It's quite feasible, and arguably desirable, for package releases t…
For all that, the more popular a language is the more packages are available and the easier it is to avoid reinventing the wheel and save time and effort. Even the wrong tool for the job is a nice choice if someone's already done the work of making a square peg fit a round hole for you.
And more people to hire, or to hire you, as well as books, mailing lists and so on.
Economists call this "positive network externalities", where the value of something increases with the number of people utilizing it.
Developer discovers nodejs, drinks kool-aid, assumes other languages are dead or dying. News at 10.
After Node will stop being popular and "hip" author will probably make a new post saying "Is Node Dying?".
Developer discovers nodejs, drinks kool-aid, assumes other languages are dead or dying. News at 10.
A better title would have be, "Is Ruby Dying? Getting The Data." As others have pointed out, the data suggests no, it is not.
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What do you reckon could not be legacy code in 15 years? C family, Java, maybe Erlang?
Not the OP, but I would expect to see still widely used: * Python - As a programming language for scientists and researchers, replacing Matlab and kin. * Go or Rust - A well-designed, modern language, easier to use than C++ but almost as fast, for enterprise applications or video games. Not sure about Google, but I hope Mozilla will still be around in 10 years. * Lua? - Not sure about this one... but it fills a niche…
I'm skeptical of this one. C# requires Windows Server or putting up with Mono's shit. The former sucks; the latter isn't great either. I'd bet that iterations on Java, as well as other JVM languages, will probably retain a significant edge long-term.
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What do you reckon could not be legacy code in 15 years? C family, Java, maybe Erlang?
Not the OP, but I would expect to see still widely used: * Python - As a programming language for scientists and researchers, replacing Matlab and kin. * Go or Rust - A well-designed, modern language, easier to use than C++ but almost as fast, for enterprise applications or video games. Not sure about Google, but I hope Mozilla will still be around in 10 years. * Lua? - Not sure about this one... but it fills a niche…
C# is held back by windows. I know there is mono, but enterprises aren't going to bet on mono. So I have to disagree with that.
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With javascript: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=python%20programming%...
With node: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=python%20programming%...