Most Popular Programming Languages 1965 - 2019
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Cited as a data source for historical language popularity, though not as a recommendation.
What it is
An animated ranking of the most popular programming languages from 1965 to 2019, built from popularity indexes, GitHub access data and historical surveys.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2019 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Cites SuddsMcDuff · 2019-11 · on “Go Turns 10”
C++ was invented in 1979. In 1989 the most popular programming languages, in order of popularity, were: 1. C 2. Ada 3. Pascal 4. Lisp 5. Fortran 6. C++ 7. Assembly 8. COBOL 9. BASIC 10. APL Source - [this video]
Cites codesections · 2020-05 · on “The Magpie Developer (2008)”
> Back then Perl and JS were only really used in web dev Wasn't Perl used pretty extensively for sysadmin tasks, too? It's a dependency of a lot of Unix tools (e.g., git) and I thought that dated to around that time or a bit before. For what it's worth, this video[0] gives the following percentages for some dynamic languages in 2008: JavaScript....21% PHP...........21% Python.........8% Ruby...........4% Perl...........4% Matlab.........3% ================= TOTAL.........60% (I totally forgot about PHP earlier. Oops!) So I stand my my initial claim that it wasn't the case that the _vast_ majority of programmers had yet to experience a dynamic language. Though I can understand it seeming that
Cites masak · 2020-08 · on “Ask HN: What happened to PG's Arc and Bel?”
So, I've been thinking about this comment a lot over the weekend. It is interesting to consider a "cool kids" demographic, of developers who stray far enough outside of the mainstream to find small but worthy languages. These would include Scala, Haskell, Kotlin, Clojure, Racket, and Rust. (Plus anyone's favorite non-mainstream language, which I in my haste totally forgot!) Earlier this year I found that, at a rough approximation, language mind-share in 2020 consists of 25% Java, 25% JavaScript, 25% Python, and 25% everything else. (My source for that is [this video] -- and I'm sure there are any number of possible objections against those numbers... but I think my point holds even if they're sev