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Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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Assume mainstream adoption as used by around 7% of all github projects

Personally, I'd like to see Nim get that growth.

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If we're saying 7% is the bar for mainstream, then Rust is my vote.

C# is not even mainstream by that standard.

I'd also like to see Julia used more.

[–] Mkengine@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where kind I find statistics for this?

[–] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 7 points 1 year ago

The guy behind the youtube channel Context Free (about programming languages) made this site that tracks language popularity based on github/stack overflow: https://tjpalmer.github.io/languish