> Go is holding at nearly 10%: it underwent a fast rise but seems to have plateaued starting in 2018. I imagine that the imminent release of Go 2.0 could help.
Is Go 2.0 imminent? Any sources and details of this?
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Re: Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
#12I ... don't think this is a good metric for 'popularity' but rather a good metric for stability/volatility. I would say that from working on a JS project, it's volatile af. You can use a package that will be abandoned tomorrow and you have no idea.
Meanwhile, the languages near the "bottom" are quite stable languages to work in (as well as a pleasure). They even /almost/ noticed it themselves when mentioning golang 2.0 coming out soon, but assumed that that would make it 'popular' again.
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#13Lovely last sentence: believing c# being an underrated language. Very true, also public pull request are not friendly to dark matter enterprise software :)
I recently got into c# and it seems really nice, but the "customs and traditions" of the dotNet world horrify me (eg: never write a function when you can write three classes instead)
Re: Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
#14Lovely last sentence: believing c# being an underrated language. Very true, also public pull request are not friendly to dark matter enterprise software :)
I recently got into c# and it seems really nice, but the "customs and traditions" of the dotNet world horrify me (eg: never write a function when you can write three classes instead)
C# is a follower of DDD, mostly. Which is a 'standard' practice for OOP design. I highly recommend reading the book about it, but that is how you end up with many classes instead of a simple function. Also, in C#, you can't generally mock a function (or static method?, not 100% sure on that, it's been nearly 10 years since I've written a unit test in C#).
Re: Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
#15Lovely last sentence: believing c# being an underrated language. Very true, also public pull request are not friendly to dark matter enterprise software :)
I've never learned C#, but I'd rather kill myself before using Microsoft Java. :D (Or, to a slightly lesser extent, Oracle Java)
Re: Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
#16There’s a link to the chart at the end. I was curious to compare C and C++. In 2022, there was a huge bump in C++, and a small bump for C.
I wonder how they count files with the .h extension. You can probably have a heuristic that is pretty close just looking for use of certain keywords, but it is possible to write a file that works in both contexts, so it's definitely a grey area.
Re: Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recently got into c# and it seems really nice, but the "customs and traditions" of the dotNet world horrify me (eg: never write a function when you can write three classes instead)
C# is a follower of DDD, mostly. Which is a 'standard' practice for OOP design. I highly recommend reading the book about it, but that is how you end up with many classes instead of a simple function. Also, in C#, you can't generally mock a function (or static method?, not 100% sure on that, it's been nearly 10 years since I've written a unit test in C#).
> you can't generally mock a function
Yes, this is generally true, so the workaround is to put your function in a class, and use an interface + dependency injection to mock what you need. Sometimes it's a hassle.
Re: Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
#18I feel like Dependabot means the JavaScript/typescript is over represented.
Re: Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
#19> Then you get the second tier languages: Java and Scala, C/C++, and Go. They all are in the 10% to 15% range.
I read that as Java and Scala both are second tier languages. After looking at the graph I realized he was lumping the two together. They are 11.3% and 1.7% respectively.
If Scala were a "better Java" that grouping would make sense. But some Scala projects are so different in the paradigm that the slight interoperability between the two languages is completely irrelevant.
Re: Programming-language popularity by GitHub pull requests
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recently got into c# and it seems really nice, but the "customs and traditions" of the dotNet world horrify me (eg: never write a function when you can write three classes instead)
C# is a follower of DDD, mostly. Which is a 'standard' practice for OOP design. I highly recommend reading the book about it, but that is how you end up with many classes instead of a simple function. Also, in C#, you can't generally mock a function (or static method?, not 100% sure on that, it's been nearly 10 years since I've written a unit test in C#).
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