Langpop.com was last updated in October of 2013. That's an eternity in our industry.
I look forward to the Redmonk rankings later this month (they're done twice a year). I believe they're based on the same data as langpop.corger.nl, so you can get an early preview! Clojure gets tons of praise. That's why it has so much mindshare. /Hype works./ We need to build some hype for Smalltalk. kilon.alios wrote > Lets see the big picture here, if you take a look at TIOBE INDEX or > LANGPOP > or the internet at large you get a clear picture about java based > languages > . Popularity wise they have been a ultimate failure. Right now the only > language that is barely noticable is Scala and even Scala is nowhere near > as popular as the less popular languages like Pascal, Delphi and Visual > Basic. Of course each website gives diffirent numbers but those numbers > are > just different in only few percentage units. > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html > > http://langpop.com/ > > Hype also does not help those languages either. Take a look at Clojure , > one of the most overhyped languages out there not just on JVM but > anywhere, > in both websites I mentioned Clojure like Pharo does not make it even in > top 50. Tons of blogs post about Clojure only, tons of praise, and praise > and praise. > > I can say about jython itself , a python implementation for the JVM and > ironpython which is python for .NET are barely noticable in the python > world with cpython gathering at least 99.9% of the attention. > > So its a really hard situation . Coding has become extremely complex and > demanding , coders want languages are deeply documented and come with tons > of libraries so its very hard for new languages to kick in. Also the > assumption that because you love a language you will be willing to start > using java libraries seems to have failed miserably. These languages seem > more appealing to java developers and java developers dont seem willing to > abandon Java any time soon. > > So as always Java death has been greatly exaggerated. > > The situation for Javascript based languages is even worse. > > So frankly what has happened with Redline is pretty normal. > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:36 AM, Craig Latta < > craig@ > > wrote: > >> >> > Shaking the hive can certainly have a positive outcome, but you can >> > also get you bitten. :) >> >> Sure, and shaking the hive too rarely will get you starved. >> >> >> -C >> >> -- >> Craig Latta >> netjam.org >> +31 6 2757 7177 (SMS ok) >> + 1 415 287 3547 (no SMS) >> >> >> -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/InfoWorld-on-Redline-Smalltalk-tp4799612p4799728.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
