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Trends on Hacker News: Programming Languages and Tools

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I think "popular" is the wrong adjective to describe what these numbers really indicate.

For example I believe electron is being discussed more, because its more controversial than classic UI frameworks. That does not mean it is more popular.

The hnprofile tool also does sentiment analysis if you want to compare that. Seems like over the last year electron discussions were indeed much less favorable than qt discussions.

I'm a little suspicious; are all name permutations being checked here? For example, js for javascript and digitalocean for "digital ocean."

Yeah I would think digital ocean should be higher. Heroku isn't even mentioned.

You're welcome to compare yourself:

https://hnprofile.com/compare

Type "digitalocean | digital ocean" if you want both options to be searched

Nodejs is listed as a framework? O_o Among React and Django?

It reads like a badly written resume.

I wonder if golang is lower in the results because people here just call it Go.

I was very surprised to see it barely present in the results.

This is interesting. I imagine given the readership and focus of HN its more indicate of what languages will be popular in the future than the Stack Overflow / Github listings.

I wouldn't be that sure whether it is any more likely to hit than any other prognosticator. For every Go or Rust that gets a lot of play here, there's a D, or Nim, or Crystal, or Pony, or a half-dozen promising upstarts that never amount to anything. There's also perennial interest in esoteric academic languages, and productive but niche languages that will never go mainstream, like Haskell and Lisps.

That's true, Haskell and Lisp get a lot more love here than they do in the real world.

How is this data being populated?

Ruby on rails gets its own post about whether its dead or not, about once every few months

NodeJS is not a framework its a language, but I guess you mean NodeJS + Express.

Node is not a language per se. Its an environment built around JavaScript and npm with some framework-like features, like eventing.

1. Wow, Javascript has taken over the world

2. SQL as #2? Shocking.

3. Open Source is dominating.

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