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digitalmars.D.announce - RedMonk language rankings June 15, 2017

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.com> writes:
http://i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/10859-redmonk-rankings-reveal-the-la
guages-we-love.html 
-- Andrei
Jun 24 2017
parent reply Wulfklaue <wulfklaue wulfklaue.com> writes:
On Saturday, 24 June 2017 at 22:05:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 http://i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/10859-redmonk-rankings-reveal-the-la
guages-we-love.html -- Andrei


It looks like D almost never moved on those rankings.
Jun 24 2017
parent reply Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= writes:
On Sunday, 25 June 2017 at 00:52:14 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:

 On Saturday, 24 June 2017 at 22:05:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
 wrote:

 http://i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/10859-redmonk-rankings-reveal-the-la
guages-we-love.html -- Andrei


 It looks like D almost never moved on those rankings.


It is flawed. Clearly, there should be far more Go github 
projects than D.
Jun 26 2017
next sibling parent Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= writes:
On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 09:30:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:

 On Sunday, 25 June 2017 at 00:52:14 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:

 On Saturday, 24 June 2017 at 22:05:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
 wrote:

 http://i-programmer.info/news/98-languages/10859-redmonk-rankings-reveal-the-la
guages-we-love.html -- Andrei


 It looks like D almost never moved on those rankings.


 It is flawed. Clearly, there should be far more Go github 
 projects than D.


As in, plotting ranks does not make much sense... If they plotted 
actual number of projects then it would be useful.
Jun 26 2017
prev sibling parent reply Wulfklaue <wulfklaue wulfklaue.com> writes:
On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 09:30:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:

 It is flawed. Clearly, there should be far more Go github 
 projects than D.


It is correct. I assume you looked at the first Red Chart. That 
is a very, very old one. The article even mentioned that this.

You need to look down for the newer from 2017 and Go has clearly 
plenty more git projects.

They are comparing the old, newer and newest ( in that order ).
Jun 26 2017
parent reply Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= writes:
On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 09:51:37 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:

 They are comparing the old, newer and newest ( in that order ).


Yes, that was confusing too. But it makes no sense to plot 
ranking on a linear scale, they should plot actual numbers. The 
plot they provide says nothing meaningful about the relative 
position of the various languages IMO.

Unfortunately for "D", it is also a language that is often 
misclassified in these shallow analyses. For instance the ".d" 
file extension is used for other things than dlang etc.

And does it actually make any sense to compare languages like 
Python and C++? Completely different domains.
Jun 26 2017
parent reply Martin Tschierschke <mt smartdolphin.de> writes:
On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:14:42 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:

 On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 09:51:37 UTC, Wulfklaue wrote:

 They are comparing the old, newer and newest ( in that order ).


 Yes, that was confusing too. But it makes no sense to plot 
 ranking on a linear scale, they should plot actual numbers. The 
 plot they provide says nothing meaningful about the relative 
 position of the various languages IMO.

 Unfortunately for "D", it is also a language that is often 
 misclassified in these shallow analyses. For instance the ".d" 
 file extension is used for other things than dlang etc.

 And does it actually make any sense to compare languages like 
 Python and C++? Completely different domains.


This is only partially true, as I know from a friend, he is 
physicist   DESY Hamburg, he is programming exactly with this 
pair of languages for data analysis.
(Could not convince him to try D jet :-))

Regards mt.
Jun 26 2017
parent Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQ=?= writes:
On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 10:23:05 UTC, Martin Tschierschke 
wrote:

 This is only partially true, as I know from a friend, he is 
 physicist   DESY Hamburg, he is programming exactly with this 
 pair of languages for data analysis.
 (Could not convince him to try D jet :-))


If the comparison was broken down into usage domains (such as 
physics) then it could be quite interesting. Which languages are 
popular in different field and why?

Would interesting to know something about that.

But when all usage domains are included, and only one public 
source repository is taken into account, then it doesn't really 
say much.
Jun 26 2017