I was kinda surprised that Go (golang) wasn't up in the list
Also, I find SO's coverage of it lacking. So maybe it's more about people sourcing the information elsewhere - relatively good docs, active and helpful community in IRC, and more Q&A on Reddit (albeit mostly - again, anecdotally - out of date, but still) than SO.
Rust is pretty hot on Hacker News and r/programming, but even working in a systems-language-heavy field, I haven't seen too much mindshare (outside of some friends at Mozilla). It is kind of a shame, both Rust and D are doing really cool things, and I'd love to see more penetration!
https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/friends.html has very many non-Mozilla organizations :)
I'd did speak to a college recently that generally keeps up with new trends and he hadn't heard of rust though, so maybe the community is very small.
http://www.arepeopletalkingaboutit.com/tags/ocaml,scheme,rus...
Unless I'm missing something that graph's all time - there's definitely tonnes of Python Q&A on SO, and as I (anecdotally) described above, not much Rust.
That graph would be better titled "Have people talked about it".
Yeah, I missed that. I thought it was recent history. If we normalized by years available, Swift seems like an outlier with Go lesser so.
I realized one factor that might play a role. I came primarily from a C++ background, and back then, stackoverflow and google were paramount and used daily.
Now that I'm primarily using Go, I almost always get my answers from godoc.org (i.e., the documentation of packages), from source code, from the specification, and from trying things on playground. I don't remember using stackoverflow for Go programming questions in years, if ever.
I wonder if that's a property of Go language (great docusmentation, easily readable source, referenceable spec and viability of answering questions via playground experiments) that cause this, and if it applies to other people too.