RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017

Re:RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017 by geodel on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:09PM (#13923541)

Key things I noticed:

Rust jumped from #47 to #26

Swift jumped from #24 to #16

There is word 'embiggen' before that I knew only 'enlarge'.

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Re:RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017 by zserge on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:29PM (#13923761)

"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." (Springfield town motto)

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Re:RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017 by opo on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @01:27PM (#13924316)

What is wrong with embiggen? It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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Re:RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017 by melling on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:52PM (#13923970)

Is there any interest in Swift outside of the Apple ecosystem? I've been slowly adding to my iOS/Swift Topics on Github: https://github.com/melling/ios_topics/blob/master/README.org

Recently, I've been tossing around the idea of creating a cross-platform repo. There seems to be some nascent interest:

https://medium.com/@iamjono/deploying-server-side-swift-to-l...

https://hackernoon.com/setting-up-a-swift-development-enviro...

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Re:RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2017 by mastax on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @02:01PM (#13924580)

The speculation on /r/Rust is that since they now base popularity on pull requests, the fact that these languages are developed on Github is a significant boost to their numbers. Both of the projects have 100+ PRs open most of the time.

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