Poll: What is your primary programming language? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by dagw » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 9:30 AM UTC

playing_colours wrote: post #28

is Python really so much more popular than Ruby (RoR), or this is HN case? As I regularly check Germany startup jobs and see Python jobs much less than Ruby/ROR ones.

If you limit yourself to web development at startups then Ruby is probably more popular. If you look at all fields where code is written to solve problems I'm not at all surprised that Python dominates Ruby. In fact I imagine the difference between the two is much larger than the poll shows if you look outside of the HN sphere

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by dagw » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 9:37 AM UTC

izietto wrote: post #10

Why is there Ruby on Rails? Rails is not a language

I'm guessing it's a reflection of the perceived notion that a non-trivial number of Ruby developers would be completely lost if asked to write even the most trivial CRUD app without using Rails. Basically capturing people who tread ruby as the DSL that Rails happens to use a scripting language, rather than treading Ruby as a freestanding language.

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by mozartgho » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 1:42 PM UTC

C++, Python

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by sealow08 » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

Ruby on Rails 50%, Ruby scripting 35%, JS 10%, c# 5%

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by tonga » Thu, Jun 27, 2013, 4:05 PM UTC

C++ for most of my algorithm work and computationally intensive work. C for my system programming work. Java/Python/JavaScript for my web related stuff. No assembly language? :)

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by Ihmahr » Fri, Jun 28, 2013, 6:54 PM UTC

darkf wrote: post #87

Ihmahr wrote: post #35

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Science! Linguistics and machine learning. I just finished implementing a swipe trajectory recognition for a Swype-like keyboard. It's my thesis.

Nice, hope you'll post a link to your thesis/code when you're done (for Science!)

https://github.com/RemideZ/Swipe_Keyboard

Code should follow.

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by c2u » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 7:15 AM UTC

js & nodejs

Re: Poll: What is your primary programming language?

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Post by darkf » Wed, Jul 03, 2013, 4:06 PM UTC

Ihmahr wrote: post #96

darkf wrote: post #87

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Nice, hope you'll post a link to your thesis/code when you're done (for Science!)

https://github.com/RemideZ/Swipe_Keyboard Code should follow.

Interesting! Thanks. Can't wait for code too :D