Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux

Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by msla on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:54PM (#30382268)

I don't understand what this is saying, primarily because I don't believe there exists any Linux distro where C isn't a dominant language for packages to be written in. Also, what's dmd? The D programming language is all that comes to mind, but the abbreviation doesn't seem to work.

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Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by Miiko on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:28AM (#30382440)

I believe, this statistic does not say anything about what language Arch packages are written in, but rather what languages Arch users really use for their work.

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Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by ergeysay on Thursday February 17, 2022 @11:58PM (#30382295)

dmd is the original D compiler, Digital Mars D (Digital Mars being Walter Bright’s company).

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Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by smitty1e on Friday February 18, 2022 @06:24AM (#30384427)

Ah, so. Thanks.

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Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by vymague on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:27AM (#30382433)

Just some misleading chart. "Misleading" is probably too mild.

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Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by Shadonototra on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:34AM (#30382467)

What is misleading about it? it's raw stats

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Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by Barrin92 on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:42AM (#30382495)

for starters because it excludes most languages. Add Python to the url at the top and it dwarfs everything else

More importantly though, trying to count programming languages by installations of individual packages doesn't make sense for languages that have multiple tool chains or are simply being installed by some other means.

script/curl based installations are extremely popular for rust (rustup), haskell (stack), clojure (leiningen) etc...

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Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by Shadonototra on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:17AM (#30382661)

I didn't include gcc/clang/python and some others because they are preinstalled in most distributions, so the data wouldn't be interesting

Best way to learn and correct mistakes is to be aware of them, thanks for your input, it's pretty obvious now indeed

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Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by scarygliders on Friday February 18, 2022 @01:07AM (#30382609)

It's raw stats of some selected languages.

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Re:Popularity of Programming Languages on Arch Linux by acomjean on Friday February 18, 2022 @12:02AM (#30382305)

According to this: C is at 87%.(I’m using gcc as a proxy for c/c++)

https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun

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