Language popularity on GitHub

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Post by blamonet » Sun, May 04, 2014, 2:13 PM UTC

Re: Language popularity on GitHub

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Post by workhere-io » Sun, May 04, 2014, 2:26 PM UTC

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that Python is being replaced by Go. I don’t have a lot of information to back up this prediction except that most of the positive articles I read about Go are written by Python developers

The fact that many articles praising Go are written by Python developers doesn't necessarily mean that pythonistas are flocking to Go. It could likely just mean that a few of the people who've hit a performance wall with Python prefer Go to, say, Java.

And you won't necessarily hit a performance wall with Python - it all depends on what you do. Instagram and Pinterest seem to be doing fine using Python.

Re: Language popularity on GitHub

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Post by samspenc » Sun, May 04, 2014, 3:36 PM UTC

About Java: IMHO, Java has been a very popular (most popular?) programming language for a while, especially in enterprises.

I think that the rise of Java's presence on GitHub is not so much an increase in Java's popularity, but rather likely a reflection of some companies to be more willing to outsource some parts of their technology stack and commit/post to GitHub.

And also, there are an emerging class of open-source enterprise applications written in Java (Hadoop, HBase and their ilk in Big Data come to mind) which are huge open-source applications and based on Java. Those are likely driving that trend as well.