Interesting to see that Erlang and Lisp are missing. Whenever possible I'm doing new development in Erlang (with C linked-in drivers where needed for performance).
Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-in.
Dude, most people I know who use C or C++ for their daily work tend to curse them. I wouldn't exactly call them popular. Of course, those same people then bite their tongue and go back to work, because they have actual work to do.
"There are two kinds of programming languages: those that nobody likes, and those that nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrop
Thanks! I thought perhaps the numbers were so low for those languages that they didn't merit inclusion, but that seems not to be the case (certainly not for Lisp).
No indeed. Language selection was a random sample, though I'm cutting off those with < 5 K mentions (e.g. C# @ 4553). Happy to run more languages if people have questions about them.
Personally, I'm moving away from Java and languages that target the JVM. I find that Erlang lets me express solutions more concisely and the Erlang emulator/vm has many of the tools needed for massively scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems built-in.