On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 12:43:13 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 1 January 2016 at 23:12:39 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
doesn't seem very reliable
TIOBE is completely unreliable. It's basically a hoax, IMO. I
guess the company only keeps it alive as a means of marketing
for their services.
Languages like "D" and "rust" will have so many false
positives...
Github gives a better perspective on actual engagement outside
the close source commercial sector.
Github has the same problem, btw. I recently spent some time
going through the top repositories in this list, and it's
surprising how many are miscategorized as D, despite having the
source:
https://github.com/search?l=D&q=stars%3A>1&s=stars&type=Repositories
For example, this one:
https://github.com/2youyouo2/Flash2Cocos2d-x
On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 15:23:51 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 15:17:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Also, is there a company like Sociomantic on that Go list, ie
built on the language primarily and externally valued at a
couple hundred million dollars? Of course, Sociomantic could
be a one-off special case and they're still on D1, but a bunch
of corporate dabblers in Go doesn't say much. You'd expect
that of a simpler language that's currently hyped more.
docker
twitter migrated most of their backend to go from python
a ton of google stuff uses go now
etc
I don't know much about Docker: is most of their stack built on
Go, as opposed to a few key components? Also, they value their
company at $1.1 billion, but that's an _internal_ valuation.
Nobody external has ever valued them that much, as they're still
private. They're attracting a fair amount of VC investment, but
that's actually a negative.
I thought twitter was on Scala, :) I don't think anybody knows
what grabbag of languages they're currently using. Also, their
valuation keeps dropping like a rock, down two-thirds from its
peak a couple years ago.
Google is certainly not built on Go.
etc
