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Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by nostrademons »

sogrady wrote: post #3
JoelPM wrote: post #2

Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance). Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-i…

Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.

I'd also like to see Haskell, which tends to be popular on Internet forums.

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by scalyweb »

sogrady wrote: post #3
JoelPM wrote: post #2

Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance). Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-i…

Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.

How about our good friend, C ?

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by neckbeard »

nostrademons wrote: post #11
sogrady wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.

I'd also like to see Haskell, which tends to be popular on Internet forums.

Or C and C++, which tend to be popular with people that get real work done.

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

#16

Post by silentOpen »

sogrady wrote: post #3
JoelPM wrote: post #2

Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance). Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-i…

Ask and ye shall receive: the post has been updated with a new graph which includes data for both Erlang and Lisp.

OCaml?

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

#17

Post by nostrademons »

neckbeard wrote: post #14
nostrademons wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd also like to see Haskell, which tends to be popular on Internet forums.

Or C and C++, which tend to be popular with people that get real work done.

Dude, most people I know who use C or C++ for their daily work tend to curse them. I wouldn't exactly call them popular. Of course, those same people then bite their tongue and go back to work, because they have actual work to do.

"There are two kinds of programming languages: those that nobody likes, and those that nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrop

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by ronnier »

pmr_ wrote: post #6

I cannot find a link to the mentioned dataset and my google-fu is useless on this. Where can I get it? Edit: I realized that the dataset was taken from http://api.ihackernews.com/ but has been taken down since.

Email me and I'll get it to you.

Re: The Languages of Hacker News

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Post by sogrady »

neckbeard wrote: post #14
nostrademons wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd also like to see Haskell, which tends to be popular on Internet forums.

Or C and C++, which tend to be popular with people that get real work done.

The .jar doesn't like the + operators, so I can't measure C++ right now, but C is at 11009. Will be updating the graph shortly.
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