2017 Top Programming Languages

Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by threepipeproblm on Friday July 21, 2017 @08:28AM (#14819828)

I love Haskell, but... Haskell is about as popular as SQL? That makes no sense.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by Double_a_92 on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:05AM (#14820139)

In real live people dont care about functional programming...

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by threepipeproblm on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:15AM (#14820220)

I believe that in your real life, they don't.

In the bigger picture functional programming has made huge inroads. Facebook has a Haskell team whose product handles up to 1 million requests per second, and it's also in production at AT&T, Microsoft, Google, Barclays, New York Times and many smaller outfits. The other day I read about a Haskell-like language being used for high-speed, low-latency trading for a hedge fund.

But there are probably at least 100x more SQL developers out there.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by throwaway7645 on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:54AM (#14820540)

Yea because almost all databases use SQL, and zillions of businesses use databases. FP is only a tiny subset of industry coding, but popular in academia and high profile companies.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by Double_a_92 on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:51AM (#14836360)

Because research teams at huge tech companies totally represent the "real life" of normal companies.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by threepipeproblm on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:40AM (#14838787)

There are by far more small companies using Haskell & FP than large ones. I mentioned large companies because they are recognizable. So what is your point?

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by adrianN on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:17AM (#14820226)

That's because functional programmers are living the dream.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by arm85 on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:04AM (#14820131)

I noticed that too, I like haskell, but I don't believe it.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by threepipeproblm on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:16AM (#14820223)

SQL may be an outlier because not that many people refer to themselves as "programming in SQL".

Conversely, there are plenty of weekend Haskellers who enjoy discussing it whenever possible.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by hyperpallium on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:12AM (#14820665)

  How can you tell someone is a Haskeller?
  Don't worry; they'll tell you.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by dna_polymerase on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:53AM (#14820532)

Is that how data works? "Oh it does not support my feelings so it must be wrong?!" Haskell is nice, granted, but not as popular as you might feel.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by hyperpallium on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:09AM (#14820642)

Pretty sure parent meant SQL is far more popular than Haskell, despite parent's love.

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Re:2017 Top Programming Languages by TeMPOraL on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:04AM (#14820608)

I thing GP might have implied the reverse. SQL is to databases what JavaScript is to the web.

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